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This interdisciplinary book integrates the historical practices regarding material excrement and its symbolic representation, with special focus on fecopoetics and Chaucer's literary agenda. Filth in all its manifestations& material (including privies, dung on fields, and as alchemical ingredient), symbolic (sin, misogynist slander, and theological wrestling with the problem of filth in sacred contexts) and linguistic (a semantic range including dirt and dung)& helps us to see how excrement is vital to understanding the Middle Ages. Applying fecal theories to late medieval culture, Morrison concludes by proposing Waste Studies as a new field of ethical and moral criticism for literary scholars.
Feces in literature --- Literature, Medieval --- Feces --- Symbolism in literature --- Human body in literature --- Sanitation in literature --- Refuse and refuse disposal in literature --- History and criticism --- Symbolic aspects --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Body, Human, in literature. --- Feces in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Refuse and refuse disposal in literature. --- Sanitation in literature. --- Symbolism in literature. --- Symbolic aspects. --- History and criticism. --- Literature, Medieval - History and criticism --- Feces - Symbolic aspects --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, - d. 1400. - Canterbury tales
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"This is the first book-length manuscript to investigate the protracted collusion between Victorian sanitary interests and nineteenth-century aesthetic philosophy. Cleere challenges standard accounts of mid-Victorian sanitation reform by focusing on the aesthetic transformations brought about by the changing ideas regarding health and cleanliness. Drawing from an array of texts that inform her research agenda--including canonical and non-canonical fiction, scientific studies, art history, and home decoration manuals--Cleere links these seemingly disparate works to demonstrate how they are connected at the level of discourse and ideologies of harmony"-- "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, domestic architecture, and interior design, The Sanitary Arts: Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns shows that the "sanitary aesthetic" significantly transformed the taste of the British public over the nineteenth century by equating robust health and cleanliness with new definitions of beauty and new experiences of aisthesis. Covering everything from connoisseurs to custodians, Cleere demonstrates that Victorian art critics, engineers, and architects-and even novelists from George Eliot to Charles Dickens, Charlotte Mary Young to Sarah Grand-all participated in a vital cultural debate over hygiene, cleanliness, and aesthetic enlightenment. The Sanitary Arts covers the mid-forties controversy over cleaning the dirt from the pictures in the National Gallery, the debate over decorative "dust traps" in the overstuffed Victorian home, and the late-century proliferation of hygienic breeding principles as a program of aesthetic perfectibility, to demonstrate the unintentionally collaborative work of seemingly unrelated events and discourses. Bringing figures like Edwin Chadwick and John Ruskin into close conversation about the sanitary status of beauty in a variety of forms and environments, Cleere forcefully demonstrates that aesthetic development and scientific discovery can no longer be understood as separate or discrete forces of cultural change"--
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- Hygiene --- Sanitation --- Sanitation in art. --- Sanitation in literature. --- Social values --- Art and literature --- Aestheticism (Literature) --- English literature --- Social aspects --- History --- History and criticism. --- Decadence (Literary movement) --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Values --- Cleanliness --- House drainage --- Sanitary affairs --- Sanitation services --- Sanitation systems --- Environmental health --- Public health --- Sanitary engineering --- Body care --- Human body --- Personal body care --- Personal cleanliness --- Personal hygiene --- Medicine, Preventive --- Health --- History and criticism --- Care and hygiene
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