How Long to Read Waste, Formations, and Remnants in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

How Long Does it Take to Read Waste, Formations, and Remnants in the Eighteenth-Century Novel?

It takes the average reader 3 hours to read Waste, Formations, and Remnants in the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Allison Claire Turner

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Description

In "Waste, Formations, and Remnants in the Eighteenth-Century Novel," I locate the emergence of a modern sense of waste in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Baconian science and European colonialism began to conceive of the New World as an untapped spring of inexhaustible resources. Alongside this ideology of infinite growth, I argue that the period of early modernity also witnessed a surge of interest in the category of byproduct waste as a site of potential value. This new conception of waste-as salvageable byproduct-is evident in one of British literature's earliest novels, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719). Indeed, after his shipwreck, Crusoe sustains himself by fashioning an island habitation out of the very wreckage that made him a castaway. I follow this salvaging impulse in works that have long been associated with the rise of the novel in this period. Throughout, I focus on texts that foreground salvaging, rather than property ownership, as the constitutive feature of modern identity. In doing so, I also engage centrally with recent developments in the history of the novel. My central claim is that eighteenth-century writers were drawn to various kinds of waste because they were persuaded that collective formations (both human and more-than-human) could be capable of finding a use for them.

How long is Waste, Formations, and Remnants in the Eighteenth-Century Novel?

Waste, Formations, and Remnants in the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Allison Claire Turner is 176 pages long, and a total of 45,056 words.

This makes it 59% the length of the average book. It also has 55% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Waste, Formations, and Remnants in the Eighteenth-Century Novel Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 6 minutes to read Waste, Formations, and Remnants in the Eighteenth-Century Novel aloud.

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Waste, Formations, and Remnants in the Eighteenth-Century Novel is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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