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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gee, Sophie, 1974-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo

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