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Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xxxvii, 317 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--London--London--History and criticism.
French literature--Paris--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.

Other Authors:

Cohen, William A., 1964-
Johnson, Ryan, 1968-

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9780816643004 (pb : alk. paper)
0816643008 (pb : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)55645012

LCCN:

2004013150

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)