Obsolete objects in the literary imagination
Subtitle: ruins, relics, rarities, rubbish, uninhabited places, and hidden treasures
By: Francesco Orlando ; translated from the Italian by Gabriel Pihas and Daniel Seidel, with the collaboration of Alessandra Grego ; foreword by David Quint.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780300108088
Subjects: Exoticism in literature.; Picturesque, The, in literature.; Ruins in literature.; Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.