| Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700-1840 2020 Edition Contributor(s): Carey, Brycchan (Editor), Greenfield, Sayre (Editor), Milne, Anne (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3030327914 ISBN-13: 9783030327910 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $113.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 18th Century - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | European - General |
| Dewey: 809.033 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.20 lbs) 284 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 |