Dusty Bob: A Cultural History of Dustmen, 1780-1870

by Brian Maidment

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719052831
• ISBN13: 9780719052835
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"