Obsolete objects in the literary imagination : ruins, relics, rarities, rubbish, uninhabited places, and hidden treasures /
Orlando, Francesco,1934-
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-480) and indexes.
What this book is about -- First, confused examples -- Making decisions in order to proceed -- A tree neither genealogical nor botanical -- Twelve categories not to be too sharply distinguished -- Some twentieth-century novels -- Praising and disparaging the functional.
Exoticism in literature.
Picturesque, The, in literature.
Ruins in literature.
Literature, Modern