Making waste : leftovers and the eighteenth-century imagination /

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Why was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? Why did Restoration and Augustan writers such as Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope describe, catalog, and memorialize the waste matter that their social and political worlds wanted to get rid of--from the t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gee, Sophie, 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Temas:
1700-1799
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Waste (Economics) in literature.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Refuse and refuse disposal in literature.
Consumption (Economics) in literature.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Gaspillage dans la littérature.
Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Déchets > Élimination, dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Civilization
Consumption (Economics) in literature
English literature
Literature and society
Refuse and refuse disposal in literature
Waste (Economics) in literature
Great Britain > Civilization > 18th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Civilisation > 18e siècle.
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 onto the corpse : fleshly remains in A journal of the plague year.

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