Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination

by Sophie Gee

The obsession with waste in eighteenth-century English literature

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691139849
• ISBN13: 9780691139845
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"