Filth: Dirt, Disgust, and Modern Life
Filth: Dirt, Disgust, and Modern Life
$22.95
Cohen, William A., and Ryan Johnson
eds. Pap. Minneapolis, 2005
Book ID: 64856
Focuses on filth in literary and cultural materials from London, Paris, and their colonial outposts in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Essays range over topics as diverse as the building of sewers in European cities, fictional representations of laboring women and foreigners as polluters, and relations among disease, disorder and sexual-racial disharmony.
317 pp., 11 halftone illus.