Allen, Michelle Elizabeth.

Cleansing the city sanitary geographies in Victorian London / [electronic resource] : Michelle Allen. - Athens : Ohio University Press, c2008. - x, 225 p. : ill., maps.

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.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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DNLM


Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Our mutual friend.
Gissing, George, 1857-1903. Nether world.


Hygiene--History--England--London--19th century.
Public health--History--England--London--19th century.
Urban health--History--England--London--19th century.


Electronic books.

RA488.L8 / A45 2008eb

362.109421

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