Making waste : leftovers and the eighteenth-century imagination
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Making waste : leftovers and the eighteenth-century imagination
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- Making waste : leftovers and the eighteenth-century imagination
- Title remainder
- leftovers and the eighteenth-century imagination
- Statement of responsibility
- Sophie Gee
- Subject
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- Civilization
- Consumption (Economics) in literature
- Consumption (Economics) in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- English literature
- English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Great Britain
- Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century
- History
- 1700-1799
- Literature and society
- Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Refuse and refuse disposal in literature
- Refuse and refuse disposal in literature
- Waste (Economics) in literature
- Waste (Economics) in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 theological dregs in Paradise Lost to the excrements in "The Lady's Dressing Room" and the corpses of A Journal of the Plague Year? In Making Waste, the first book about refuse and its place in Enlightenment literature and culture, Sophie Gee examines the meaning of waste at the moment when
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- E7B
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- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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