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Filth : dirt, disgust, and modern life / / William A. Cohen and Ryan Johnson, editors



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Titolo: Filth : dirt, disgust, and modern life / / William A. Cohen and Ryan Johnson, editors Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2005
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: xxxvii, 317 p. : ill
Disciplina: 820.9/32421
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: London (England) Social life and customs 19th century
Paris (France) Social life and customs 19th century
Altri autori: CohenWilliam A  
JohnsonRyan <1968->  
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the question of what filth has to do with culture: what critical role the lost, the rejected, the abject, and the dirty play in social management and identity formation.
Titolo autorizzato: Filth  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-9568-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820916303321
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