Filth
Subtitle: dirt, disgust, and modern life
By: William A. Cohen and Ryan Johnson, editors.
Contributors: Cohen, William A., 1964-; Johnson, Ryan, 1968-
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Good and intimate filth / Christopher Hamlin; title: The new historicism and the psychopathology of everyday modern life / David Trotter; title: Sewage treatments : vertical space and waste in nineteenth-century Paris and London / David L. Pike; title: Medical mapping : the Thames, the body, and our mutual friend / Pamela K. Gilbert; title: Confronting sensory crisis in the great stinks of London and Paris / David S. Barnes; title: Victorian dust traps / Eileen Cleere; title: "Dirty pleasure" : trilby's filth / Joseph Bristow; title: Merdre! performing filth in the bourgeois public sphere / Neil Blackadder; title: Foreign matter : imperial filth / Joseph W. Childers; title: The dustbins of history: waste management in late-Victorian utopias / Natalka Freeland; title: The Indian subject of colonial hygiene / William Kupinse; title: Abject academy / Benjamin Lazier.