Obsolete objects in the literary imagination ruins, relics, rarities, rubbish, uninhabited places, and hidden treasures /

Orlando, Francesco, 1934-2010.

Obsolete objects in the literary imagination ruins, relics, rarities, rubbish, uninhabited places, and hidden treasures / [electronic resource] : Francesco Orlando ; tr. from the Italian by Gabriel Pihas and Daniel Seidel, with the collab. of Alessandra Grego ; foreword by David Quint. - New Haven : Yale University Press, 2006. - xvii, 500 p.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.



9780300108088




Exoticism in literature.
Picturesque, The, in literature.
Ruins in literature.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PN56.E78 / O7513 2006

809/.9332