Waste paper in early modern England : privy tokens

Waste paper in early modern England : privy tokens / Anna Reynolds.

The ubiquity of waste paper in early modern England has long been misunderstood. Although references to waste paper in insults and modesty tropes are widespread, they are easily dismissed as nothing more than rhetorical flourishes. Working under the common misconception that paper would have been to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reynolds, Anna (Lecturer) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.
Subjects:
Waste paper > England > History.
Waste paper > Recycling > England > History.
Waste paper
Waste paper > Recycling
The environment.
Environment and Ecology.
England
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: waste matter
  • 1 The material history of waste paper
  • 2 Pepper and mackerel: the waste paper trope
  • 3 Butterflies and binders' shops: reading monastic waste
  • 4 Pickled paper: Thomas Nashe's poetics of waste
  • 5 Out of date almanacs and Middleton's 'mouldy stuff'
  • Coda: living with waste.

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