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
Autor principal: Gee, Sophie, 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Waste (Economics) in literature.
Refuse and refuse disposal in literature.
Literature and society.
English literature.
Consumption (Economics) in literature.
Civilization.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Dechets > Élimination, dans la litterature.
Litterature et societe > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Gaspillage dans la litterature.
Litterature anglaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
Grande-Bretagne > Civilisation > 18e siecle.
Great Britain > Civilization > 18th century.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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