Filth dirt, disgust, and modern life

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Filth dirt, disgust, and modern life

Title:

Filth dirt, disgust, and modern life

Author:

Cohen, William A.

Publication Information:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 317 p. : ill.

Contents:

Good and intimate filth / The new historicism and the psychopathology of everyday modern life / Sewage treatments : vertical space and waste in nineteenth-century Paris and London / Medical mapping : the Thames, the body, and our mutual friend / Confronting sensory crisis in the great stinks of London and Paris / Victorian dust traps / "Dirty pleasure" : Trilby's filth / Merdre! performing filth in the bourgeois public sphere / Foreign matter : imperial filth / The dustbins of history : waste management in late-Victorian utopias / The Indian subject of colonial hygiene / Abject academy

Subject Term:

English literature -- England -- London -- History and criticism.

French literature -- France -- Paris -- History and criticism.

English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

Refuse and refuse disposal -- History -- 19th century.

Refuse and refuse disposal in literature.

Urban health -- History -- 19th century.

Sanitation -- History -- 19th century.

City and town life in literature.

Geographic Term:

London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.