Carey / Greenfield / Milne

Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700–1840

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Fachbuch

Buch. Softcover

1st ed. 2020. 2021

xiv, 284 S. 9 s/w-Abbildungen, Bibliographien.

In englischer Sprache

Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-3-030-32794-1

Format (B x L): 14,8 x 21 cm

Gewicht: 396 g

Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature

Produktbeschreibung

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.