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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Main Author: Gee, Sophie, 1974-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2010.
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