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

Date:
[2005], ©2005
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Publication/Creation

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2005], ©2005.

Physical description

xxxvii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

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.

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    History of Medicine
    JB.3.AA8
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  • 0816642990
  • 0816643008