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Cleansing the city : sanitary geographies in Victorian London

Title
  1. Cleansing the city : sanitary geographies in Victorian London / Michelle Allen.
Published by
  1. Athens : Ohio University Press, c2008.
Author
  1. Allen, Michelle Elizabeth.

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Description
  1. x, 225 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Subject
  1. Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
  2. Gissing, George, 1857-1903
  3. Hygiene > England > London > History > 19th century
  4. Public health > England > London > History > 19th century
  5. Urban health > England > London > History > 19th century
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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-215) and index.