Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination

Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination Gee Sophie Wydawca: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2010 ISBN: 9780691139845 Liczba stron: 216 Format: 239 x 161 x 21 Rodzaj oprawy: Hardback Opis produktu: Why was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? This book explains how English writers used contemporary theological and philosophical texts about unwanted and leftover matter to explore secular, literary relationships between waste and value.