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Making waste leftovers and the eighteenth-century imagination

Title
Making waste [electronic resource] : leftovers and the eighteenth-century imagination / Sophie Gee.
Author
Gee, Sophie, 1974-
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2010.

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Description
1 online resource (viii, 196 p.)
Uniform Title
Making waste (Online)
Alternative Title
Making waste (Online)
Subject
  • 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
  • Great Britain > Civilization > 18th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-186) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
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.
LCCN
2009032667
OCLC
ssj0000362783
Author
Gee, Sophie, 1974-
Title
Making waste [electronic resource] : leftovers and the eighteenth-century imagination / Sophie Gee.
Imprint
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-186) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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