TY - BOOK AU - Cleere,Eileen ED - Project Muse. TI - The Sanitary Arts : : Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns SN - 9780814273159 PY - 2014/// CY - Columbus PB - Ohio State University Press KW - Nervo, Amado KW - English Literature KW - hilcc KW - Languages & Literatures KW - English KW - Gesundheitswesen KW - gnd KW - Reinlichkeit KW - Ästhetik KW - Hygiene KW - Englisch KW - Kunst KW - Social values KW - fast KW - Sanitation KW - Social aspects KW - Sanitation in literature KW - Sanitation in art KW - English literature KW - Art and literature KW - Aestheticism (Literature) KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - works of art KW - aat KW - fine arts (discipline) KW - beauty KW - aesthetics KW - history (discipline) KW - philosophy KW - thinking KW - social psychology KW - public health KW - humanities KW - Art KW - Valeurs sociales KW - Esthetique KW - Medecine KW - Histoire KW - 19e siecle KW - Prestation de soins KW - Personnel medical KW - Traitement de l'information chez l'homme KW - Litterature KW - 1500- KW - Philosophie KW - Pensee KW - Psychologie sociale KW - Sante publique KW - Sciences humaines KW - Therapeutique KW - Hygiene du milieu KW - Salubrite publique KW - Salubrite publique dans la litterature KW - Aspect social KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Art et litterature KW - Esthetisme (Litterature) KW - Litterature anglaise KW - Histoire et critique KW - Beauty KW - Health Workforce KW - Health Personnel KW - History, Early Modern 1451-1600 KW - Literature, Modern KW - Social Values KW - Esthetics KW - History, 19th Century KW - Psychological Phenomena and Processes KW - Disciplines and Occupations KW - Psychiatry and Psychology KW - Delivery of Health Care KW - Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms KW - Public Health Practice KW - Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment KW - Health Occupations KW - History KW - Mental Processes KW - Environment and Public Health KW - Literature KW - History, Modern 1601- KW - Communicable Disease Control KW - Philosophy KW - Thinking KW - Psychology, Social KW - Public Health KW - Humanities KW - Therapeutics KW - Environmental Health KW - Aesthetics KW - Medical care KW - Medical personnel KW - Human information processing KW - Thought and thinking KW - Social psychology KW - Public health KW - Environmental health KW - 19th century KW - Great Britain KW - History and criticism KW - Grossbritannien KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 N2 - "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"-- UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/32602/ ER -