Overview

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. -- .

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Author:   Brian Maidment ,  Bethan Hirst
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.048kg
ISBN:  

9780719052835

ISBN 10:   0719052831
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 August 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable  
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Table of Contents

1. Dustmen real and imagined 2. Picturesque and educative dustmen - the urban scene and its dirty denizens 1790-1821 3. Theatrical dustmen 1820-1860 - not so Dusty Bob 4. Visual culture and the represented dustman 1820 - 1850. The public dustman 5. Visual culture and the represented dustman 1820 - 1850. Domestic dustmen and cultural challenge 6. Dust and the early Victorian imagination 7. Dust commodified and categorised - mayhew, Dickens and the investigative impulse 1840-1900 Conclusion -- .

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Brian Maidment is Professor of English at the University of Salford -- .

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