Making waste : leftovers and the eighteenth-century imagination / Sophie Gee.

Author/creator Gee, Sophie, 1974-
Format Book
Publication InfoPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2010.
Descriptionviii, 196 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
English literature--18th century. --History and criticism.
Waste (Economics) in literature.
Literature and society--Great Britain. --History. --18th century.
Refuse and refuse disposal in literature.
Consumption (Economics) in literature.
Great Britain--Civilization. --18th century.

Contents Making waste -- 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 on to the corpse : fleshly remains in A journal of the plague year -- Mr. Spectator's Tears and Sophia Western's Muff.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009032667
ISBN9780691139845 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0691139849 (cloth : alk. paper)