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In particular, the dustman was drawn over and over again by caricaturists using ideas derived from both available stereotypes and from new and pressing social concerns. Later Victorian social analysts, notably Mayhew and Dickens, also had much to say about dustmen, and Dickens's 'Golden Dustman' - Nicodemus Boffin in "Our Mutual Friend" - draws on many of the ideas and images discussed here. Although "Dusty Bob" centrally comprises a detailed and original piece of research of interest to scholars and advanced students of Victorian culture, it has been written with a broader readership in…mehr

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In particular, the dustman was drawn over and over again by caricaturists using ideas derived from both available stereotypes and from new and pressing social concerns. Later Victorian social analysts, notably Mayhew and Dickens, also had much to say about dustmen, and Dickens's 'Golden Dustman' - Nicodemus Boffin in "Our Mutual Friend" - draws on many of the ideas and images discussed here. Although "Dusty Bob" centrally comprises a detailed and original piece of research of interest to scholars and advanced students of Victorian culture, it has been written with a broader readership in mind.
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 mythologised in the first seventy years of the nineteenth century. Although Dusty Bob centrally comprises a detailed and original piece of research of interest to scholars and advanced students of Victorian culture, it has been written with a broader readership in mind.
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Brian Maidment is Professor of English at the University of Salford