‘An unbidden guest at your table’: Purity, danger and the house-fly in the middle-class home, c. 1870-1910

The house-fly was an inescapable part of everyday life in Victorian England, and its presence in the home was an unwelcome reminder to middle-class Victorians that for all their efforts to construct the domestic space as a pristine refuge from the external forces of disorder, pollution and dirt, the...

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Main Author: Neil Davie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2017-03-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/3151
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