The Masses Are Revolting : Victorian Culture and the Political Aesthetics of Disgust /

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"The Masses Are Revolting is a history of disgust in nineteenth-century Britain. It focuses on the role of disgust in various cultural domains, such as sanitary reform, obscenity law, realist literature, and urban sociology"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Samalin, Zachary (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Aversion in literature.
Aversion.
Aversion > Political aspects > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Aversion > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Aversion > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: of origins and orifices
  • The odor of things: the great stink and the rationalization of revulsion
  • Realism and repulsion
  • Darwin's vomit: nausea on the primal scene
  • The masses are revolting; or, the birth of social theory from the spirit of disgust
  • The age of obscenity
  • Conclusion: horizons of expectoration.

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