The Sanitary Arts : Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns
Cleere, Eileen,
The Sanitary Arts : Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns - 1 online resource (224 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Foul matter: Edwin Chadwick; John Ruskin, and mid-Victorian Aesthesis -- Dirty pictures: John Ruskin, Modern Painters, and Victorian Sanitation of Fine Art -- The Sanitary narrative: Victorian reform fiction and the putresence of the picturesque -- Victorian dust traps -- The surgical arts: aesthesia and anaesthesia in late-Victorian medical fiction -- Aesthetic anachronisms: Mary Ward's The Mating of Lydia and the persistent plot of sanitary fiction -- Intensive culture: John Ruskin, Sarah Grand, and the aesthetics of eugenics -- On methods, materials, and meaning.
Open Access
"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"-- "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"--
English.
9780814273159
Nervo, Amado
English Literature.
Languages & Literatures.
English.
Gesundheitswesen
Reinlichkeit
Ästhetik
Hygiene
Englisch
Kunst
Social values.
Sanitation--Social aspects.
Sanitation in literature.
Sanitation in art.
Hygiene--Social aspects.
English literature.
Art and literature.
Aestheticism (Literature)
Hygiene.
Sanitation.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
works of art.
fine arts (discipline)
beauty.
aesthetics.
history (discipline)
philosophy.
thinking.
social psychology.
public health.
humanities.
Art.
Valeurs sociales.
Esthetique.
Medecine--Histoire--19e siecle.
Prestation de soins.
Personnel medical.
Histoire.
Traitement de l'information chez l'homme.
Litterature.
Medecine--Histoire--1500-
Philosophie.
Pensee.
Psychologie sociale.
Sante publique.
Sciences humaines.
Therapeutique.
Hygiene du milieu.
Hygiene.
Salubrite publique.
Salubrite publique dans la litterature--Aspect social--Histoire--19e siecle.
Valeurs sociales--Aspect social--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siecle.
Art et litterature--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siecle.
Esthetisme (Litterature)--Histoire--19e siecle.
Litterature anglaise--Histoire et critique--Grande-Bretagne--19e siecle.
Beauty
Health Workforce
Health Personnel
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
Art
Literature, Modern
Social Values
Sanitation
Hygiene
Esthetics
History, 19th Century
Psychological Phenomena and Processes.
Disciplines and Occupations.
Psychiatry and Psychology.
Delivery of Health Care
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms.
Public Health Practice
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment.
Health Occupations
History
Mental Processes
Environment and Public Health.
Literature
History, Modern 1601-
Communicable Disease Control
Philosophy
Thinking
Psychology, Social
Public Health
Humanities
Therapeutics
Environmental Health
Art.
Social values.
Aesthetics.
Medical care.
Medical personnel.
History.
Human information processing.
Literature, Modern.
Literature.
Philosophy.
Thought and thinking.
Social psychology.
Public health.
Humanities.
Therapeutics.
Environmental health.
Hygiene.
Sanitation.
Sanitation in art.
Sanitation in literature--Social aspects--History--19th century.
Social values--Social aspects--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Art and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Aestheticism (Literature)--History--19th century.
English literature--History and criticism--Great Britain--19th century.
Grossbritannien
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
The Sanitary Arts : Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns - 1 online resource (224 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Foul matter: Edwin Chadwick; John Ruskin, and mid-Victorian Aesthesis -- Dirty pictures: John Ruskin, Modern Painters, and Victorian Sanitation of Fine Art -- The Sanitary narrative: Victorian reform fiction and the putresence of the picturesque -- Victorian dust traps -- The surgical arts: aesthesia and anaesthesia in late-Victorian medical fiction -- Aesthetic anachronisms: Mary Ward's The Mating of Lydia and the persistent plot of sanitary fiction -- Intensive culture: John Ruskin, Sarah Grand, and the aesthetics of eugenics -- On methods, materials, and meaning.
Open Access
"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"-- "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"--
English.
9780814273159
Nervo, Amado
English Literature.
Languages & Literatures.
English.
Gesundheitswesen
Reinlichkeit
Ästhetik
Hygiene
Englisch
Kunst
Social values.
Sanitation--Social aspects.
Sanitation in literature.
Sanitation in art.
Hygiene--Social aspects.
English literature.
Art and literature.
Aestheticism (Literature)
Hygiene.
Sanitation.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
works of art.
fine arts (discipline)
beauty.
aesthetics.
history (discipline)
philosophy.
thinking.
social psychology.
public health.
humanities.
Art.
Valeurs sociales.
Esthetique.
Medecine--Histoire--19e siecle.
Prestation de soins.
Personnel medical.
Histoire.
Traitement de l'information chez l'homme.
Litterature.
Medecine--Histoire--1500-
Philosophie.
Pensee.
Psychologie sociale.
Sante publique.
Sciences humaines.
Therapeutique.
Hygiene du milieu.
Hygiene.
Salubrite publique.
Salubrite publique dans la litterature--Aspect social--Histoire--19e siecle.
Valeurs sociales--Aspect social--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siecle.
Art et litterature--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siecle.
Esthetisme (Litterature)--Histoire--19e siecle.
Litterature anglaise--Histoire et critique--Grande-Bretagne--19e siecle.
Beauty
Health Workforce
Health Personnel
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
Art
Literature, Modern
Social Values
Sanitation
Hygiene
Esthetics
History, 19th Century
Psychological Phenomena and Processes.
Disciplines and Occupations.
Psychiatry and Psychology.
Delivery of Health Care
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms.
Public Health Practice
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment.
Health Occupations
History
Mental Processes
Environment and Public Health.
Literature
History, Modern 1601-
Communicable Disease Control
Philosophy
Thinking
Psychology, Social
Public Health
Humanities
Therapeutics
Environmental Health
Art.
Social values.
Aesthetics.
Medical care.
Medical personnel.
History.
Human information processing.
Literature, Modern.
Literature.
Philosophy.
Thought and thinking.
Social psychology.
Public health.
Humanities.
Therapeutics.
Environmental health.
Hygiene.
Sanitation.
Sanitation in art.
Sanitation in literature--Social aspects--History--19th century.
Social values--Social aspects--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Art and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Aestheticism (Literature)--History--19th century.
English literature--History and criticism--Great Britain--19th century.
Grossbritannien
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.