Cooking with mud: the idea of mess in nineteenth-century art and fiction

Auteur :
Trotter, David
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780198185031
Date de publication :
24 févr. 2000
Dimensions :
22,4 x 14,6 x 2,4 cm
Poids :
608 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Mess is age-old and universal, both as phenomenon and as topic. The evidence collected in this book suggests, however, that the second half of the 19th century saw the first stirrings in Western culture of a primary interest in mess for its own sake.