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The Masses Are Revolting : Victorian Culture and the Political Aesthetics of Disgust
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Title
The Masses Are Revolting : Victorian Culture and the Political Aesthetics of Disgust / Zachary Samalin.
ISBN
9781501756481
9781501756474
9781501756467
Publication
Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (342 pages).
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Summary
"The Masses Are Revolting is a history of disgust in nineteenth-century Britain. It focuses on the role of disgust in various cultural domains, such as sanitary reform, obscenity law, realist literature, and urban sociology"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
Introduction: of origins and orifices
The odor of things: the great stink and the rationalization of revulsion
Realism and repulsion
Darwin's vomit: nausea on the primal scene
The masses are revolting; or, the birth of social theory from the spirit of disgust
The age of obscenity
Conclusion: horizons of expectoration.
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Genre/Form
History.
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