Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)

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The police and soap ... were the antithesis of the crime and disease which supposedly lurked in the slums ... [but policing is effected through the gaze of the bourgeoisie, which is then implicated in its object:]

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