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Dusty Bob - A Cultural History of Dustmen, 1780-1870 (Hardcover)
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Dusty Bob - A Cultural History of Dustmen, 1780-1870 (Hardcover)
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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. -- .
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