1st Edition
Dirt in Victorian Literature and Culture Writing Materiality
By Sabine Schülting
Copyright 2016
204 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction: Accumulating Dirt 1. Dirt and Victorian Thing Culture 2. Dirt, Disease, and Death 3. Slum Biographies 4. Urban Emotions 5. Rewriting Indian Dirt
Biography
Sabine Schülting teaches at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on early modern and Victorian literature and culture. Recent book publications include Shylock nach dem Holocaust and Early Modern Encounters with the Islamic East. She is also the general editor of Shakespeare Jahrbuch.
