Filth

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

	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

Be the first to write a customer review

Dirt, Disgust and Modern Life

Buying options