Contents -- Introduction: Locating Filth -- Part I. Fundamentals of Filth -- 1. Good and Intimate Filth -- 2. The New Historicism and the Psychopathology of Everyday Modern Life -- Part II. Sanitation and the City -- 3. Sewage Treatments: Vertical Space and Waste in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London -- 4. Medical Mapping: The Thames, the Body, and Our Mutual Friend -- 5. Confronting Sensory Crisis in the Great Stinks of London and Paris -- Part III. Polluting the Bourgeois -- 6. Victorian Dust Traps -- 7. "Dirty Pleasure": Trilby's Filth -- 8. Merdre! Performing Filth in the Bourgeois Public Sphere -- 9. Foreign Matter: Imperial Filth -- Part IV. Dirty Modernism -- 10. The Dustbins of History: Waste Management in Late-Victorian Utopias -- 11. The Indian Subject of Colonial Hygiene -- 12. Abject Academy -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.