Dirty old London : the Victorian fight against filth / Lee Jackson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]Copyright date: Description: 293 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300192056
  • 0300192053
  • 9780300216110
  • 0300216114
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 363.7009421/09034 23
LOC classification:
  • DA683 .J17 2014
NLM classification:
  • WA 11 FE5
Online resources:
Contents:
The golden dustman -- Inglorious mud -- Night soil -- Removable causes -- Vile bodies -- The great unwashed -- The public convenience -- Wretched houses -- The veil of soot.
Summary: "In Victorian London, filth was everywhere : horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with 'night soil', graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them"-- From inside jacket flap.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-283) and index.

The golden dustman -- Inglorious mud -- Night soil -- Removable causes -- Vile bodies -- The great unwashed -- The public convenience -- Wretched houses -- The veil of soot.

"In Victorian London, filth was everywhere : horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with 'night soil', graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them"-- From inside jacket flap.

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