From Fleece to Fleets; or, Wool and the Production of Wonder.
The commodity of wool occupies a central place in the English imaginary of the eighteenth century, which is evident in the writings of Daniel Defoe, John Smith, and John Dyer. Dyer's four-book poem The Fleece (1757) employs a georgic narrative to trace the movement of fleece from organic sub stance...
| Published in: | Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 101 - 122 |
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| Format: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Toronto Press
Fall2019
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