Title The sanitary arts : aesthetic culture and the Victorian cleanliness campaigns

Published Columbus : Ohio State University Press 2014

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Description 1 online resource Contents Foul matter: Edwin Chadwick; John Ruskin, and mid-Victorian Aesthesis -- Dirty pictures: John Ruskin, Modern Painters, and Victorian Sanitation of Fine Art -- The Sanitary narrative: Victorian reform fiction and the putresence of the picturesque -- Victorian dust traps -- The surgical arts: aesthesia and anaesthesia in late-Victorian medical fiction -- Aesthetic anachronisms: Mary Ward's The Mating of Lydia and the persistent plot of sanitary fiction -- Intensive culture: John Ruskin, Sarah Grand, and the aesthetics of eugenics -- On methods, materials, and meaning Summary "This is the first book-length manuscript to investigate the protracted collusion between Victorian sanitary interests and nineteenth-century aesthetic philosophy. Cleere challenges standard accounts of mid-Victorian sanitation reform by focusing on the aesthetic transformations brought about by the changing ideas regarding health and cleanliness. Drawing from an array of texts that inform her research agenda--including canonical and non-canonical fiction, scientific studies, art history, and home decoration manuals--Cleere links these seemingly disparate works to demonstrate how they are connected at the level of discourse and ideologies of harmony"-- Provided by publisher "Eileen Cleere argues in this interdisciplinary study that mid-century discoveries about hygiene and cleanliness not only influenced public health, civic planning, and medical practice but also powerfully reshaped the aesthetic values of the British middle class. By focusing on paintings, domestic architecture, and interior design, The Sanitary Arts: Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns shows that the "sanitary aesthetic" significantly transformed the taste of the British public over the nineteenth century by equating robust health and cleanliness with new definitions of beauty and new experiences of aisthesis. Covering everything from connoisseurs to custodians, Cleere demonstrates that Victorian art critics, engineers, and architects-and even novelists from George Eliot to Charles Dickens, Charlotte Mary Young to Sarah Grand-all participated in a vital cultural debate over hygiene, cleanliness, and aesthetic enlightenment. The Sanitary Arts covers the mid-forties controversy over cleaning the dirt from the pictures in the National Gallery, the debate over decorative "dust traps" in the overstuffed Victorian home, and the late-century proliferation of hygienic breeding principles as a program of aesthetic perfectibility, to demonstrate the unintentionally collaborative work of seemingly unrelated events and discourses. Bringing figures like Edwin Chadwick and John Ruskin into close conversation about the sanitary status of beauty in a variety of forms and environments, Cleere forcefully demonstrates that aesthetic development and scientific discovery can no longer be understood as separate or discrete forces of cultural change"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English SUBJECT Nervo, Amado gnd Subject English literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism -- 19th century Aestheticism (Literature) -- History -- 19th century Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Social values -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Sanitation in literature -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century Sanitation in art. Sanitation. Hygiene. Environmental health. Therapeutics. Humanities. Public health. Social psychology. Thought and thinking. Philosophy. Literature. Literature, Modern. Human information processing. History. Medical personnel. Medical care. Aesthetics. Social values. Art. Arts. Environmental Health Therapeutics Humanities Public Health Psychology, Social Thinking Philosophy Communicable Disease Control History, Modern 1601- Literature Environment and Public Health Mental Processes History Health Occupations Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment Public Health Practice Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms Delivery of Health Care Psychiatry and Psychology Disciplines and Occupations Psychological Phenomena and Processes History, 19th Century Esthetics Hygiene Sanitation Social Values Literature, Modern Art History, Early Modern 1451-1600 Health Personnel Health Workforce Beauty Patient Care humanities. public health. social psychology. thinking. philosophy. history (discipline) aesthetics. beauty. fine arts (discipline) works of art. treating (health care function) LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Sanitation Hygiene Aestheticism (Literature) Art and literature English literature Hygiene -- Social aspects Sanitation in art Sanitation in literature Sanitation -- Social aspects Social values Kunst Englisch Hygiene Ästhetik Reinlichkeit Gesundheitswesen English. Languages & Literatures. English Literature. Great Britain Großbritannien Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2013046161 ISBN 0814273157 9780814273159

Other Titles Aesthetic culture and the Victorian cleanliness campaigns

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