| Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination Subjects: 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; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century; Cons; No detailed description available for "Making Waste". Sophie Gee is assistant professor of English at Princeton University and the author of The Scandal of the Season (Scribner), a novel based on the story behind Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock . She writes regularly for the New York Times Book Review , the Washington Post , and the Financial Times . |