Research Catalog

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Description

1. x, 225 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Subject

1. Urban health > England > London > History > 19th century
2. Hygiene > England > London > History > 19th century
3. Medicine in Literature > England > London
4. Public Health > history > England > London
5. History, 19th Century > England > London
6. Gissing, George, 1857-1903 > Nether world
7. Social Environment > England > London
8. Public health > England > London > History > 19th century
9. Sanitation > history > England > London
10. Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 > Our mutual friend

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JFE 08-6428

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-215) and index.

Author

1. Allen, Michelle Elizabeth.

Title

1. Cleansing the city : sanitary geographies in Victorian London / Michelle Allen.

Imprint

1. Athens : Ohio University Press, c2008.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-215) and index.

Connect to:

1. Contributor biographical information
2. Publisher description

LCCN

1. 2007041299

ISBN

1. 9780821417706 (hc : alk. paper)
2. 0821417703 (hc : alk. paper)
3. 9780821417713 (pbk : alk. paper)
4. 0821417711 (pbk : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 08-6428