Making Waste by Sophie Gee (Paperback Book)

Name: Making Waste by Sophie Gee (Paperback Book)
Brand: Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press

The obsession with waste in eighteenth-century English literatureWhy 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\u2014from 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 the early modern world was turning modern.\nGee explains how English writers used contemporary theological and philosophical texts about\n\nMaking Waste\nLeftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPleas;