Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London Book

List of Illustrations     vii
Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction: The Sanitary City: The "Effacing Fingers" of Reform     1
The London Sewer: Purification and the Experience of Urban Disorder     24
"Thames Fever": The Contest for the River in the Metropolitan Imagination     54
A More Expansive Reach: The Geography of the Thames in Our Mutual Friend     86
No Space for the Poor: Disillusionment with Reform in the 1880s     115
Intransigence and Limited Mobility: Competing Geographies in The Nether World     140
Afterword     168
Notes     177
Bibliography     203
Index     217