Dusty Bob - A Cultural History of Dustmen, 1780-1870

Informationen zum Autor Brian Maidment is Professor of English at the University of Salford Klappentext Why did dustmen exercise an extended hold over the imagination of many Regency and Victorian artists and writers, including George Cruikshank, Henry Mayhew, Charles Dickens as well as numerous little known dramatists, caricaturists, print makers, journalists and novelists? This book, the first study of the cultural representation of the dust trade, provides many varied answers to this question by showing the ways in which London dustmen were associated with ideas of contamination, dirt, noise, violence, wealth, consumerism and threat. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, including plays, novels, reportage and, especially, visual culture, Dusty Bob describes the ways in which dustmen were perceived and mythologised in the first seventy years of the nineteenth century.Although Dusty Bob centrally comprises a detailed and original piece of research of interest to scholars and advanced students of Victorian culture, it has been written with a broader readership in mind. Zusammenfassung Dusty Bob provides a detailed and highly illustrated study of a trade central to the well-being of Victorian London - that of the metropolitan dustman. Using an wide range of sources! especially prints and illustrations! this book shows! for the first time! why dustmen provided a subject for so many Victorian artists! writers and dramatists. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Dustmen real and imagined2. Picturesque and educative dustmen - the urban scene and its dirty denizens 1790-18213. Theatrical dustmen 1820-1860 - not so Dusty Bob4. Visual culture and the represented dustman 1820 - 1850. The public dustman5. Visual culture and the represented dustman 1820 - 1850. Domestic dustmen and cultural challenge6. Dust and the early Victorian imagination7. Dust commodified and categorised - mayhew, Dickens and the investigative impulse 1840-1900Conclusion...

Product details

• Authors: Brian Maidment, Maidment Brian
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2007
• EAN: 9780719052835
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-5283-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; London, Greater London, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, NATURE / Natural Resources, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, Science / Environmental Science, Waste Management, C 1700 To C 1800