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

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvii, 317 pages) : illustrations 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record 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. Social ecology. Urban Health -- history History, 19th Century Literature, Modern -- history Refuse Disposal -- history Sanitation -- history Social Environment human ecology. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. Social ecology. City and town life in literature. English literature. French literature. Manners and customs. Refuse and refuse disposal. Refuse and refuse disposal in literature. Sanitation. Urban health. SUBJECT London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078225 Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85098072 London Paris Subject England -- London. France -- Paris. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Form Electronic book Author Cohen, William A., editor. Johnson, Ryan, 1968- editor. LC no. 2004013150 ISBN 9780816695683 0816695687

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