Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700–1840
This book examines literary representations of birds from across the world in anage of expanding European colonialism. It offers important new perspectives intothe ways birds populate and generate cultural meaning in a variety of literary andnon-literary genres from 1700–1840 as well as throughout a broad range ofecosystems and bioregions. It considers a wide range of authors, including someof the most celebrated figures in eighteenth-century literature such as John Gay,Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Anna Letitia Barbauld, William Cowper, MaryWollstonecraft, Thomas Bewick, Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, andGilbert White. ignwogwog[p
| ISBN: | 9783030327910 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 284 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Herausgeber: | Carey, Brycchan Greenfield, Sayre Milne, Anne |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Veröffentlicht: | 23.09.2020 |
| Untertitel: | Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700–1840 |
| Schlagworte: | Anna Letitia Barbauld Ecocriticism Environmental humanities Henry Fielding John Gay Laurence Sterne Life sciences Mary Wollstonecraft Thomas Bewick William Cowper |
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