Nineteenth-Century Sanitation Reform

Nineteenth-Century Sanitation Reform Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Overviews
  • ‘Terra Incognita’—An Image of the City in English Literature, 1820-1855
  • Discovering a World of Suffering: Fiction and the Rhetoric of Sanitary Reform—1840-1860
• Criticism: Primary Texts
  • The Sanitary Commission, and the Health of the Metropolis
  • Supply of Water to the Metropolis
• Criticism: Social Context
  • A Political Medicine
  • Down among the Dead: Edwin Chadwick's Burial Reform Discourse in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England
• Criticism: Public Health In Literature
  • Decomposing: Wordsworth's Poetry of Epitaph and English Burial Reform
  • ‘And Dying Thus around Us Every Day’: Pathology, Ontology, and the Discourse of the Diseased Body. A Study of Illness and Contagion in Bleak House.
  • Pollution, Defilement and the Art of Decomposition
  • The Jenneration of Disease: Vaccination, Romanticism, and Revolution
• Further Reading