The Sanitary Arts : Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns

The Sanitary Arts : Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns

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"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:
Nervo, Amado
English Literature.
Languages & Literatures.
English.
Gesundheitswesen
Reinlichkeit
Ästhetik
Hygiene
Englisch
Kunst
Social values.
Sanitation > Social aspects.
Sanitation in literature.
Sanitation in art.
Hygiene > Social aspects.
English literature.
Art and literature.
Aestheticism (Literature)
Hygiene.
Sanitation.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
works of art.
fine arts (discipline)
beauty.
aesthetics.
history (discipline)
philosophy.
thinking.
social psychology.
public health.
humanities.
Art.
Valeurs sociales.
Esthetique.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Prestation de soins.
Personnel medical.
Histoire.
Traitement de l'information chez l'homme.
Litterature.
Medecine > Histoire > 1500-
Philosophie.
Pensee.
Psychologie sociale.
Sante publique.
Sciences humaines.
Therapeutique.
Hygiene du milieu.
Salubrite publique.
Salubrite publique dans la litterature > Aspect social > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Valeurs sociales > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Art et litterature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Esthetisme (Litterature) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Litterature anglaise > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire et critique > 19e siecle.
Beauty
Health Workforce
Health Personnel
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
Art
Literature, Modern
Social Values
Sanitation
Esthetics
History, 19th Century
Psychological Phenomena and Processes.
Disciplines and Occupations.
Psychiatry and Psychology.
Delivery of Health Care
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms.
Public Health Practice
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment.
Health Occupations
History
Mental Processes
Environment and Public Health.
Literature
History, Modern 1601-
Communicable Disease Control
Philosophy
Thinking
Psychology, Social
Public Health
Humanities
Therapeutics
Environmental Health
Aesthetics.
Medical care.
Medical personnel.
History.
Human information processing.
Literature, Modern.
Literature.
Philosophy.
Thought and thinking.
Social psychology.
Public health.
Humanities.
Therapeutics.
Environmental health.
Sanitation in literature > Social aspects > History > 19th century.
Social values > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Art and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Aestheticism (Literature) > History > 19th century.
English literature > Great Britain > History and criticism > 19th century.
Grossbritannien
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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.

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