Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature
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
| ISBN: | 9783030327941 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 284 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Herausgeber: | Carey, Brycchan Greenfield, Sayre Milne, Anne |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Veröffentlicht: | 24.09.2021 |
| Untertitel: | Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700–1840 |
| Schlagworte: | Anna Letitia Barbauld Ecocriticism Environmental humanities Henry Fielding John Gay Laurence Sterne Life sciences Mary Wollstonecraft Thomas Bewick William Cowper |
Brycchan Carey is Professor of English at Northumbria University, Newcastleupon Tyne, UK. The author of numerous publications on eighteenth-centuryliterature and culture, his monographs include British Abolitionism and theRhetoric 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 atGreensburg, USA. He has been a research fellow at Chawton House Library andhas recently contributed an essay on Shakespearean allusions to The CambridgeGuide 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. Shewas a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society inMunich, Germany (2011) and published ‘ Lactilla Tends Her Fav’rite Cow’: EcocriticalReadings of Animals and Women in Eighteenth-Century British Labouring-ClassWomen’s Poetry in 2008. Her research highlights animals, environment, and localcultural production in eighteenth-century British poetry.