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