Cleansing the City : Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London, Paperback by A...-image

Cleansing the City : Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London, Paperback by A...

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Item Weight: 11.6 Oz Author: Michelle Allen Item Length: 9 in Type: Textbook Item Height: 0.8 in Publication Year: 2007 Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Health & Fitness, History, Medical Number of Pages: 232 Pages Subject: Public Health, Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Healthy Living, Europe / Great Britain / General, Subjects & Themes / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Sociology / Urban Format: Perfect width: 6.1 in Item Width: 6.1 in Publisher: Ohio University Press Publication Name: Cleansing the City : Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London Language: English Book Title: Cleansing the City : Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London height: 0.8 in ISBN: 9780821417713

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Cleansing the City : Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London, Paperback by A.... Cleansing the City : Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London, Paperback by Allen, Michelle, ISBN 0821417711, ISBN-13 9780821417713, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Allen (English, US Naval Academy) provides insight into the contested nature of sanitary modernization through this study of Victorian London, where resistance to reform found multiple forms in expression of nostalgia for a threatened urban landscape and domestic autonomy. Th's five sections include segments analyzing the geography of the Thames in the 1860s from Dickens' Our Mutual Friend and intransigence and limited mobility in the 1880s in Gissing's The Nether World, as well as chapters on the sanitary city, the London sewer, the "Thames Fever," and the poor's disillusionment with reform in the 1880s. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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