Time, Desire and Horror Towards a History of

In this book Alain Corbin argues that the 1860s were a crucial period for western civilization, characterized by radical changes in the way Europeans viewed themselves and their world. Corbin examines urban development, the new mobility of the population, prostitution and policing, personal hygiene and the social plagues of alcoholism, tuberculosis and venereal disease.

Alain Corbin is Professor of Modern History at the University of Paris I, Sorbonne.

Publisher's Note
Preface to the English edition
The Daily Arithmetic of the Nineteenth Century	p. 1
The Great Century of Linen	p. 13
Agitation in Provincial Theatres under the Restoration	p. 39
The Archaeology of the Housewife and Bourgeois Fantasies	p. 62
The 'Sex in Mourning' and the History of Nineteenth-Century Women	p. 71
The Doomed Education of the Nineteenth-Century Prostitute	p. 84
Nineteenth-Century Prostitutes and the 'Vast Effort of Nothingness'	p. 92
Hereditary Syphilis or the Impossible Redemption: A Contribution to the History of Morbid Heredity	p. 111
The Little Bible for Young Marrieds	p. 135
Public Opinion, Policy and Industrial Pollution in the Pre-Haussmann Town	p. 146
The Peasants of Paris: A History of Limousin Building Workers in the Nineteenth Century	p. 158
The Blood of Paris: Reflections on the Genealogy of the Image of the Capital	p. 172
A History and Anthropology of the Senses	p. 181
Index	p. 196
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Time, Desire and Horror Towards a History of the Senses

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