Description
Recycling is not a concept that is usually applied to the eighteenth century. "The environment" may not have existed as a notion then, yet practices of re-use and transformation obviously shaped the early-modern world. Still, this period of booming commerce and exchange was also marked by scarcity and want. This book reveals the fascinating variety and ingenuity of recycling processes that may be observed in the commerce, crafts, literature, and medicine of the eighteenth century. Recycling is used as a thought-provoking means to revisit subjects such as consumption, the new science, or novel writing, and cast them in a new light where the waste of some becomes the luxury of others, clothes worn to rags are turned into paper and into books, and scientific breakthroughs are carried out in old kitchen pans.
About the Author
Ariane Fennetaux is Senior Lecturer in 18th-Century Studies at Universite Paris Diderot. Amelie Junqua is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Amiens. Sophie Vasset is a Senior Lecturer at Universite Paris Diderot.
Book Information
ISBN 9780367208851
Author Ariane Fennetaux
Format Paperback
Page Count 278
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 539g
