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Cleansing the city [electronic resource] : sanitary geographies in Victorian London / Michelle Allen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Athens : Ohio University Press, c2008.Description: x, 225 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.109421 22
LOC classification:
  • RA488.L8 A45 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
The London sewer: purification and the experience of urban disorder -- "Thames fever": the contest for the river in the metropolitan imagination -- A more expansive reach: the geography of the Thames in Our mutual friend -- No space for the poor: disillusionment with reform in the 1880s -- Intransigence and limited mobility: competing geographies in the Nether world.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-215) and index.

The London sewer: purification and the experience of urban disorder -- "Thames fever": the contest for the river in the metropolitan imagination -- A more expansive reach: the geography of the Thames in Our mutual friend -- No space for the poor: disillusionment with reform in the 1880s -- Intransigence and limited mobility: competing geographies in the Nether world.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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