The Sanitary Arts : Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns

"Eileen Cleere argues in this interdisciplinary study that mid-century discoveries about hygiene and cleanliness not only influenced public health, civic planning, and medical practice but also powerfully reshaped the aesthetic values of the British middle class. By focusing on paintings, domes...

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Main Author: Cleere, Eileen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press 2014
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Art
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Table of Contents:
  • Foul matter: Edwin Chadwick; John Ruskin, and mid-Victorian Aesthesis
  • Dirty pictures: John Ruskin, Modern Painters, and Victorian Sanitation of Fine Art
  • The Sanitary narrative: Victorian reform fiction and the putresence of the picturesque
  • Victorian dust traps
  • The surgical arts: aesthesia and anaesthesia in late-Victorian medical fiction
  • Aesthetic anachronisms: Mary Ward's The Mating of Lydia and the persistent plot of sanitary fiction
  • Intensive culture: John Ruskin, Sarah Grand, and the aesthetics of eugenics
  • On methods, materials, and meaning.