Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700–1840 (1st ed. 2020) (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)
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- Synopsis
- 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
- Copyright:
- 2020
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9783030327927
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783030327910
- Publisher:
- Springer International Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 10/10/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Springer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Brycchan Carey
- Edited by:
- Sayre Greenfield
- Edited by:
- Anne Milne
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