Filth : dirt, disgust, and modern life

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

Other author/creator	Cohen, William A.
Other author/creator	Johnson, Ryan, 1968-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2005.
Description	xxxvii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	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.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2004013150
ISBN	0816642990 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN	0816643008 (pb : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PR8477 .F55 2005	✔ Available	Place Hold