Making waste: leftovers and the eighteenth-century imagination

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii Introduction: Making Waste 1 Chapter 1: The Invention of the Wasteland: Civic Narrative and Dryden's Annus Mirabilis 18 Chapter 2: Wastelands, Paradise Lost, and Popular Polemic at the Restoration 41 Chapter 3: Milton's Chaos in Pope's London: Material Philosophy and the Book Trade 67 Chapter 4: The Man on the Dump: Swift, Ireland, and the Problem of Waste 91 Chapter 5: Holding On to the Corpse: Fleshly Remains in A Journal of the Plague Year 112 Afterword: Mr. Spectator's Tears and Sophia Western's Muff 137 NOTES 145 BIBLIOGRAPHY 169 INDEX 187

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