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Making waste : leftovers and the eighteenth-century imagination / Sophie Gee.
LIBRA PR448.W37 G44 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gee, Sophie, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Waste (Economics) in literature.
- Literature and society--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Literature and society.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Refuse and refuse disposal in literature.
- Great Britain--Civilization--18th century.
- Civilization.
- Consumption (Economics) in literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 196 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Making waste
- The invention of the wasteland : civic narrative and Dryden's Annus mirabilis
- Wastelands, Paradise lost, and popular polemic at the restoration
- Milton's Chaos in Pope's London : material philosophy and the book trade
- The man on the dump : Swift, Ireland, and the problem of waste
- Holding on to the corpse : fleshly remains in A journal of the plague year
- Mr. Spectator's Tears and Sophia Western's Muff.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691139845
- 0691139849
- OCLC:
- 320802674
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