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Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination
Making Waste Leftovers and the EighteenthCentury Imagination
Author: 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 theological dregs in Paradise Lost to the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691139845
ISBN-10: 0691139849
Publication Date: 12/28/2009
Pages: 216
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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