The Usefulness of Waste: Filth and Waste in Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend and George Gissing's The Nether World
abstract: Victorian London was often confronted with the filth and waste that was the result of urban civilization. The Victorians saw themselves as a race of humanity above the savage tribes. While steps were taken to repress these natural and instinctual products of humanity, human waste and filth...
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| Format: | Dissertation |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14937 |