Cleansing the city : sanitary geographies in Victorian London /

'Cleansing the City' explores not only the challenges faced by reformers as they strove to clean up an increasingly filthy city but the resistance to their efforts.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Allen, Michelle Elizabeth
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2008.
Sujets:
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870. > Our mutual friend.
Gissing, George, > 1857-1903. > Nether world.
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 > Our mutual friend
Gissing, George, > 1857-1903 > Nether world
Our mutual friend (Dickens, Charles)
1800-1899
Hygiene > England > London > History > 19th century.
Public health > England > London > History > 19th century.
Medicine in literature.
Social ecology.
Public Health > history
History, 19th Century
Medicine in Literature
Sanitation > history
Social Environment
Hygiène > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Santé publique > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Écologie sociale.
human ecology.
Social ecology
Medicine in literature
Hygiene
Public health
Abfallbeseitigung
Englisch
Kanalisation
London > Motiv
Roman
Städtehygiene
London
England > London
Englisch.
London (Motiv)
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The London sewer: purification and the experience of urban disorder
  • "Thames fever": the contest for the river in the metropolitan imagination
  • A more expansive reach: the geography of the Thames in Our mutual friend
  • No space for the poor: disillusionment with reform in the 1880s
  • Intransigence and limited mobility: competing geographies in the Nether world.

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