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Dirt, Disgust and Modern Life
William A. Cohen, Ryan Johnson
ISBN: 9780816643004
Format: Paperback
Publisher:University of Minnesota Press
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In introducing a dozen mostly new essays on filth viewed literally and metaphorically, Cohen (English, U. of Maryland) surveys themes and timeframes ranging from recent New York garbage dump problems to historical views toward morally polluting venues and behaviors. Literal representations treated include 19th-century European sanitation crises. Re
In introducing a dozen mostly new essays on filth viewed literally and metaphorically, Cohen (English, U. of Maryland) surveys themes and timeframes ranging from recent New York garbage dump problems to historical views toward morally polluting venues and behaviors. Literal representations treated include 19th-century European sanitation crises. Re
| ISBN | 0816643008 | | Pages | 368 | | ISBN13 | 9780816643004 (What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | University of Minnesota Press | | Weight (grammes) | 467 | | Imprint | University of Minnesota Press | | Published in | Minneapolis | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 229 | | Publication date | 15 Dec 2004 | | Width (mm) | 146 | | Library of Congress | 2004013150 | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | DEWEY | 820.932421 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| | | Introduction : locating filth by William A. Cohen | | | | 1 | | Good and intimate filth by Christopher Hamlin | | 3 | | 2 | | The new historicism and the psychopathology of everyday modern life by David Trotter | | 30 | | 3 | | Sewage treatments : vertical space and waste in nineteenth-century Paris and London by David L. Pike | | 51 | | 4 | | Medical mapping : the Thames, the body, and Our mutual friend by Pamela K. Gilbert | | 78 | | 5 | | Confronting sensory crisis in the great stinks of London and Paris by David S. Barnes | | 103 | | 6 | | Victorian dust traps by Eileen Cleere | | 133 | | 7 | | "Dirty pleasure" : Trilby's filth by Joseph Bristow | | 155 | | 8 | | Merdre! : performing filth in the bourgeois public sphere by Neil Blackadder | | 182 | | 9 | | Foreign matter : imperial filth by Joseph W. Childers | | 201 | | 10 | | The dustbins of history : waste management in late-Victorian utopias by Natalka Freeland | | 225 | | 11 | | The Indian subject of colonial hygiene by William Kupinse | | 250 | | 12 | | Abject academy by Benjamin Lazier | | 277 |
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