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Title Filth [electronic resource] : dirt, disgust, and modern life / William A. Cohen and Ryan Johnson, editors.

Imprint Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.

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Description xxxvii, 317 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Good and intimate filth / Christopher Hamlin -- The new historicism and the psychopathology of everyday modern life / David Trotter -- Sewage treatments : vertical space and waste in nineteenth-century Paris and London / David L. Pike -- Medical mapping : the Thames, the body, and our mutual friend / Pamela K. Gilbert -- Confronting sensory crisis in the great stinks of London and Paris / David S. Barnes -- Victorian dust traps / Eileen Cleere -- "Dirty pleasure" : Trilby's filth / Joseph Bristow -- Merdre! performing filth in the bourgeois public sphere / Neil Blackadder -- Foreign matter : imperial filth / Joseph W. Childers -- The dustbins of history : waste management in late-Victorian utopias / Natalka Freeland -- The Indian subject of colonial hygiene / William Kupinse -- Abject academy / Benjamin Lazier.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Cohen, William A.
Johnson, Ryan, 1968-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0816642990 (hc : alk. paper)
0816643008 (pb : alk. paper)

 
    
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