Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700–1840

Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700–1840
ISBN-10
3030327922
ISBN-13
9783030327927
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
284
Language
English
Published
2020-09-22
Publisher
Springer Nature
Authors
Brycchan Carey, Anne Milne, Sayre Greenfield

Description

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

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