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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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