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Birds in eighteenth-century literature : reason, emotion, and ornithology, 1700-1840 / edited by Brycchan Carey, Sayre Greenfield, Anne Milne.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Palgrave studies in animals and literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Birds in literature.
- Literature, Modern--18th century--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 3030327922
- 9783030327927
- Publisher Number:
- 99985464395
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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