Making waste
Subtitle: leftovers and the eighteenth-century imagination
By: Sophie Gee.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691139845
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Making waste; title: The invention of the wasteland : civic narrative and Dryden's Annus mirabilis; title: Wastelands, Paradise lost, and popular polemic at the restoration; title: Milton's chaos in Pope's London : material philosophy and the book trade; title: The man on the dump : Swift, Ireland, and the problem of waste; title: Holding onto the corpse : fleshly remains in A journal of the plague year; title: Mr. Spectator's Tears and Sophia Western's Muff.