Brycchan Carey & Sayre Greenfield 
Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature [PDF ebook] 
Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700–1840

Supporto


This book examines literary representations of birds from across the world in an

age of expanding European colonialism. It offers important new perspectives into

the ways birds populate and generate cultural meaning in a variety of literary and

non-literary genres from 1700–1840 as well as throughout a broad range of

ecosystems and bioregions. It considers a wide range of authors, including some

of the most celebrated figures in eighteenth-century literature such as John Gay,

Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Anna Letitia Barbauld, William Cowper, Mary

Wollstonecraft, Thomas Bewick, Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, and

Gilbert White.


 ignwogwog[p

€106.99
Modalità di pagamento

Tabella dei contenuti


1. Introduction; Brycchan Carey, Sayre Greenfield, and Anne Milne.- 2. Avian Encounters and Moral Sentiment in Poetry from Eighteenth-Century Ireland; Lucy Collins.- 3. Ortolans, Partridges, and Pullets: Birds as Prey in Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones; Leslie Aronson.- 4. ‘In Clouds Unnumber’d’: Anna Letitia Barbauld’s ‘Birds and Insects’, Speculative Ecology, and the Politics of Naturalism; D. T. Walker.- 5. Charlotte Smith and the Nightingale; Bethan Roberts.- 6. The Labouring-Class Bird; Nancy M. Derbyshire.- 7. The Language of Birds and the Language of Real Men: Wordsworth, Coleridge and the ‘Best Part’ of Language; Francesca Mackenney.- 8. ‘No Parrot, Either in Morality or Sentiment’: Talking Birds and Mechanical Copying in the Age of Sensibility; Alex Wetmore.- 9. Placing Birds in Place: Reading Habitat in Beilby’s and Bewick’s History of British Birds; Anne Milne.- 10. The Literary Gilbert White; Brycchan Carey.- 11. When Poet Meets Penguin: British Verse Confronts Exotic Avifauna; Sayre Greenfield.- 12. Bird Metaphors in Racialised Ethnographic Description, c. 1700–1800′; George T. Newberry.- 13.‘The Incomparable Curiosity of Every Feather!’: Cotton Mather’s Birds; Nicholas Junkerman.- 14. The Passenger Pigeon and the New World Myth of Plenitude; Kevin Joel Berland.

 

Circa l’autore

Brycchan Carey is Professor of English at Northumbria University, Newcastle


upon Tyne, UK. The author of numerous publications on eighteenth-century


literature and culture, his monographs include
British Abolitionism and the


Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760–1807 (2005) and


From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery,

1657–1761 (2012).


Sayre Greenfield is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh at

Greensburg, USA. He has been a research fellow at Chawton House Library and

has recently contributed an essay on Shakespearean allusions to
The Cambridge


Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare and various essays on Austen to
Persuasions:

The Jane Austen Journal. He is also the co-editor of
Jane Austen in Hollywood
(2001) and the author of
The Ends of Allegory (1998).


Anne Milne is Lecturer at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada. She

was a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in

Munich, Germany (2011) and published ‘
Lactilla Tends Her Fav’rite Cow’: Ecocritical


Readings of Animals and Women in Eighteenth-Century British Labouring-Class


Women’s Poetry in 2008. Her research highlights animals, environment, and local

cultural production in eighteenth-century British poetry.

Acquista questo ebook e ricevine 1 in più GRATIS!
Lingua Inglese ● Formato PDF ● Pagine 284 ● ISBN 9783030327927 ● Dimensione 3.7 MB ● Editore Brycchan Carey & Sayre Greenfield ● Casa editrice Springer International Publishing ● Città Cham ● Paese CH ● Pubblicato 2020 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 7606992 ● Protezione dalla copia DRM sociale

Altri ebook dello stesso autore / Editore

67.380 Ebook in questa categoria