Dusty Bob

A cultural history of dustmen, 17801870

By: Brian Maidment

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Hardcover | 1 August 2007

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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 mythologized in the first seventy years of the nineteenth century.

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Note on citation of images	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
List of illustrations	p. xiii
Dustmen real and imagined	p. 1
Picturesque and educative dustmen: the urban scene and its dirty denizens, 1790-1821	p. 36
Theatrical dustmen, 1820-60: not so Dusty Bob	p. 58
Visual culture and the represented dustman, 1820-50: the public dustman	p. 88
Visual culture and the represented dustman, 1820-50: domestic dustmen and cultural challenge	p. 128
Dust and the early Victorian urban imagination	p. 156
Dust commodified and categorised: Mayhew, Dickens and the investigative impulse, 1840-1900	p. 185
Conclusion	p. 215
Notes	p. 219
Bibliography	p. 242
Index	p. 249
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