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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Allen, Michelle Elizabeth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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