Making waste: leftovers and the eighteenth-century imagination
Auteur :
Gee, Sophie
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691284507
Date de publication :
24 févr. 2026
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 cm
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.