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
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| 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->
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-9568-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820916303321 |
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