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Daybooks of discovery : nature diaries in Britain, 1770-1870 / Mary Ellen Bellanca.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bellanca, Mary Ellen, 1958-
- Series:
- Under the sign of nature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English diaries--History and criticism.
- English diaries.
- Authors, English--Diaries--History and criticism.
- Authors, English.
- Authors, English--Biography--History and criticism.
- Authors, English--Biography.
- Nature in literature.
- Natural history in literature.
- Environmental protection in literature.
- Ecocriticism.
- Authors, English--Diaries.
- Genre:
- Diaries.
- Physical Description:
- x, 286 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- A melange of fact, narrative, and imaginative re-creation, the nature diary played a crucial role in literature and science in a period of burgeoning knowledge about the natural world. For students and scholars of environmental history, the history of science, ecocriticism, and Victorian studies, Daybooks of Discovery will prove an essential tool for understanding this distinctive genre.
- Contents:
- Introduction : "shining like green flames"
- Observing by the day : a natural history of nature diaries
- "Ephemerae innumerable" : nature uncontained in Gilbert White's journals
- "Go and do likewise" : the nineteenth-century cult of white, mass-market natural history, and the nature diary in popular literature
- Communities of knowledge : Dorothy Wordsworth, natural history, and the web of nineteenth-century topography
- "I am going to turn author" : scientific self-fashioning in the Journal of Emily Shore
- Desacralizing nature : George Eliot's "Recollections of Ilfracombe," seaside natural history, and Victorian women's nature writing
- Catching the white tiger's skin : Gerard Manley Hopkins's journal and the poetics of natural history
- Conclusion : the 1870s and beyond.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-277) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813926124
- 0813926122
- 9780813926131
- 0813926130
- OCLC:
- 73742310
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