Title Dirt in Victorian literature and culture : writing materiality / Sabine Schülting

Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations Series Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 18 Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 18. Contents 1. Dirt and Victorian thing culture -- 2. Dirt, disease, and death -- 3. Slum biographics -- 4. Urban emotions -- 5. Rewriting Indian dirt Summary Addressing the Victorian obsession with the sordid materiality of modern life, this book studies dirt in nineteenth-century English literature and the Victorian cultural imagination. Dirt litters Victorian writing - industrial novels, literature about the city, slum fiction, bluebooks, and the reports of sanitary reformers. It seems to be "matter out of place," challenging traditional concepts of art and disregarding the concern with hygiene, deodorization, and purification at the center of the "civilizing process." Drawing upon Material Cultural Studies for an analysis of the complex relationships between dirt and textuality, the study adds a new perspective to scholarship on both the Victorian sanitation movement and Victorian fiction. The chapters focus on Victorian commodity culture as a backdrop to narratives about refuse and rubbish; on the impact of waste and ordure on life stories; on the production and circulation of affective responses to filth in realist novels and slum travelogues; and on the function of dirt for both colonial discourse and its deconstruction in postcolonial writing Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Material culture in literature. Sanitation in literature. Consumption (Economics) in literature. Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Consumption (Economics) in literature. English literature. Literature and society. Material culture in literature. Sanitation in literature. Great Britain. Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781317392606 1317392604 9781317392613 1317392612 9781317392590 1317392590

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