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UNINA9910457246303321 |
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Gee Sophie <1974-> |
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Making waste [[electronic resource] ] : leftovers and the eighteenth-century imagination / / Sophie Gee |
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Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, 2010 |
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1-282-45870-1 |
9786612458705 |
1-4008-3212-8 |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (206 p.) |
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English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
Waste (Economics) in literature |
Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Refuse and refuse disposal in literature |
Consumption (Economics) in literature |
Electronic books. |
Great Britain Civilization 18th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Making Waste -- 1. The Invention of the Wasteland: Civic Narrative and Dryden's Annus Mirabilis -- 2. Wastelands, Paradise Lost, and Popular Polemic at the Restoration -- 3. Milton's Chaos in Pope's London: Material Philosophy and the Book Trade -- 4. The Man on the Dump: Swift, Ireland, and the Problem of Waste -- 5. Holding On to the Corpse: Fleshly Remains in A Journal of the Plague Year -- Afterword: Mr. Spectator's Tears and Sophia Western's Muff -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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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 |
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excrements in "The Lady's Dressing Room" and the corpses of A Journal of the Plague Year? In Making Waste, the first book about refuse and its place in Enlightenment literature and culture, Sophie Gee examines the meaning of waste at the moment when the early modern world was turning modern. Gee explains how English writers used contemporary theological and philosophical texts about unwanted and leftover matter to explore secular, literary relationships between waste and value. She finds that, in the eighteenth century, waste was as culturally valuable as it was practically worthless--and that waste paradoxically revealed the things that the culture cherished most. The surprising central insight of Making Waste is that the creation of value always generates waste. Waste is therefore a sign--though a perverse one--that value and meaning have been made. Even when it appears to symbolize civic, economic, and political failure, waste is in fact restorative, a sign of cultural invigoration and imaginative abundance. Challenging the conventional association of Enlightenment culture with political and social improvement, and scientific and commercial progress, Making Waste has important insights for cultural and intellectual history as well as literary studies. |
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UNINA9910787751403321 |
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Cole Bernard D. <1943-> |
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Asian maritime strategies : navigating troubled waters / / Bernard D. Cole |
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Annapolis, Maryland : , : Naval Institute Press, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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1 online resource (321 p.) |
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HIS027150HIS027060HIS027110 |
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Sea-power - Pacific Area |
Sea-power - Pacific Area - History |
Navies - Pacific Area |
Navies - Asia |
Pacific Area Strategic aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Introduction ; 1. Setting the Scene; 2. The United States; 3. Japan ; 4. North Asia ; 5. China ; 6. Southeast Asia ; 7. India ; 8. South Asia ; 9. Conflict and Cooperation ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index ; About the Author |
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" Asian Maritime Strategies explores one of the world's most complex and dangerous maritime arenas. Asia, stretching from the Aleutian Islands to the Persian Gulf, contains the world's busiest trade routes. It is also the scene of numerous maritime territorial disputes, pirate attacks, and terrorist threats. In response, the nations of the region are engaged in a nascent naval arms race. In this new work, Bernard Cole, author of the acclaimed The Great Wall At Sea, examines the maritime strategies and naval forces of the region's nations, as well as evaluating the threats and opportunities for cooperation at sea. The United States Navy is intimately involved in these disputes and opportunities, which threaten vital American economic, political, and security interests. The most useful geographical designation for maritime Asia is the "Indo-Pacific" and Cole provides both a survey of the maritime strategies of |
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the primary nations of the Indo-Pacific region as well as an evaluation of the domestic and international politics that drive those strategies. The United States, Canada, Russia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, China, the Philippines, Brunei, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, India, Pakistan, Iran, the smaller Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf states are all surveyed and analyzed. The United States, Japan, China, and India draw the most attention, given their large modern navies and distant strategic reach and the author concludes that the United States remains the dominant maritime power in this huge region, despite its lack of a traditionally strong merchant marine. U.S. maritime power remains paramount, due primarily to its dominant navy. The Chinese naval modernization program deservedly receives a good deal of public attention, but Cole argues that on a day-to-day basis the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, as its navy is named, is the most powerful maritime force in Far Eastern waters, while the modernizing Indian Navy potentially dominates the Indian Ocean. Most telling will be whether United States power and focus remain on the region, while adjusting to continued Chinese maritime power in a way acceptable to both nations. No other current or recent work provides such a complete description of the Indo-Pacific region's navies and maritime strategies, while analyzing the current and future impact of those forces. "-- |
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