Making Waste : : Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination / / Sophie Gee.
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 t...
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Gee, Sophie, author. Making Waste : Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination / Sophie Gee. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009] ©2010 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Making Waste -- 1. The Invention of the Wasteland: Civic Narrative and Dryden's Annus Mirabilis -- 2. Wastelands, Paradise Lost, and Popular Polemic at the Restoration -- 3. Milton's Chaos in Pope's London: Material Philosophy and the Book Trade -- 4. The Man on the Dump: Swift, Ireland, and the Problem of Waste -- 5. Holding On to the Corpse: Fleshly Remains in A Journal of the Plague Year -- Afterword: Mr. Spectator's Tears and Sophia Western's Muff -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 the early modern world was turning modern. Gee explains how English writers used contemporary theological and philosophical texts about unwanted and leftover matter to explore secular, literary relationships between waste and value. She finds that, in the eighteenth century, waste was as culturally valuable as it was practically worthless--and that waste paradoxically revealed the things that the culture cherished most. The surprising central insight of Making Waste is that the creation of value always generates waste. Waste is therefore a sign--though a perverse one--that value and meaning have been made. Even when it appears to symbolize civic, economic, and political failure, waste is in fact restorative, a sign of cultural invigoration and imaginative abundance. Challenging the conventional association of Enlightenment culture with political and social improvement, and scientific and commercial progress, Making Waste has important insights for cultural and intellectual history as well as literary studies. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) Consumption (Economics) in literature. Criticism European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature 18th century History and criticism. Literature and society Great Britain History 18th century. Refuse and refuse disposal in literature. Waste (Economics) in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015 9783110662580 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Univ. Press eBook Package 2000-2013 9783110413434 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459531 print 9780691139845 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400832125 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400832125.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Making Waste -- 1. The Invention of the Wasteland: Civic Narrative and Dryden's Annus Mirabilis -- 2. Wastelands, Paradise Lost, and Popular Polemic at the Restoration -- 3. Milton's Chaos in Pope's London: Material Philosophy and the Book Trade -- 4. The Man on the Dump: Swift, Ireland, and the Problem of Waste -- 5. Holding On to the Corpse: Fleshly Remains in A Journal of the Plague Year -- Afterword: Mr. Spectator's Tears and Sophia Western's Muff -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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