Cleansing the City by Michelle Allen
Explores challenges faced by reformers as they strove to clean up an increasingly filthy city as well as resistance to their efforts. This book emphasizes disruptions and disorientation occasioned by purification. It elevates an undercurrent of Victorian thought into mainstream and provides insight into contested nature of sanitary modernization.
“Professor Allen is to be congratulated on rescuing those who had a pessimistic view of reform, or who opposed it in principle, from obscurity or the facile dismissal of scholarsShe investigates what is clearly a powerful and recurring undercurrent in Victorian thought and elevates it into the mainstream.”
“It is a useful corrective...to be shown that the path of reform was strewn at every bend with those who saw themselves as losers in a process of unwelcome change.” * Times Literary Supplement *
“Cleansing the City has much to offer students of social history, urban planning, environmentalism, and literature....(A) most valuable study.” * The Victorian Web *
“What Allen’s book contributes to this already-established field of literature is an expansive drawing-together of a rich variety of source material previously unconnected.” * Technology and Culture *
“Allen’s book...is committed to supplementing the textual and discursive study of Victorian sanitary reform with a grittier and more detailed analysis of urban space and the human experience of that space.” * Victorian Studies *
“It is a useful corrective...to be shown that the path of reform was strewn at every bend with those who saw themselves as losers in a process of unwelcome change.” * Times Literary Supplement *
“Cleansing the City has much to offer students of social history, urban planning, environmentalism, and literature....(A) most valuable study.” * The Victorian Web *
“What Allen’s book contributes to this already-established field of literature is an expansive drawing-together of a rich variety of source material previously unconnected.” * Technology and Culture *
“Allen’s book...is committed to supplementing the textual and discursive study of Victorian sanitary reform with a grittier and more detailed analysis of urban space and the human experience of that space.” * Victorian Studies *
Michelle Allen is an assistant professor of English at the U. S. Naval Academy. She has published an edition of Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780821417713 |
| ISBN 10 | 0821417711 |
| Title | Cleansing the City |
| Author | Michelle Allen |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Ohio University Press |
| Year published | 2007-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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