Description
Book SynopsisDusty Bob provides a detailed and highly illustrated study of a trade central to the well-being of Victorian London - that of the metropolitan dustman. Using an wide range of sources, especially prints and illustrations, this book shows, for the first time, why dustmen provided a subject for so many Victorian artists, writers and dramatists. -- .
Table of Contents1. Dustmen real and imagined
2. Picturesque and educative dustmen – the urban scene and its dirty denizens 1790-1821
3. Theatrical dustmen 1820-1860 - not so Dusty Bob
4. Visual culture and the represented dustman 1820 – 1850. The public dustman
5. Visual culture and the represented dustman 1820 - 1850. Domestic dustmen and cultural challenge
6. Dust and the early Victorian imagination
7. Dust commodified and categorised – mayhew, Dickens and the investigative impulse 1840-1900
Conclusion
