| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 196 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The invention of the wasteland : civic narrative and Dryden's Annus mirabilis -- Wastelands, Paradise lost, and popular polemic at the restoration -- Milton's chaos in Pope's London : material philosophy and the book trade -- The man on the dump : Swift, Ireland, and the problem of waste -- Holding onto the corpse : fleshly remains in A journal of the plague year. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Waste (Economics) in literature.
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Waste (Economics) in literature. |
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Literature and society. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Refuse and refuse disposal in literature.
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Refuse and refuse disposal in literature. |
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Consumption (Economics) in literature.
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Consumption (Economics) in literature. |
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Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century.
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Civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gee, Sophie, 1974- Making waste. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2010 (DLC) 2009032667 |
| ISBN |
9781400832125 (electronic book) |
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1400832128 (electronic book) |
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0691139849 |
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9780691139845 |
| Standard No. |
9786612458705 |
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