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Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700-1840
Carey, Brycchan ; Greenfield, Sayre ; Milne, Anne (Author)
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Palgrave MacMillan
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Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700-1840 - Carey, Brycchan ; Greenfield, Sayre ; Milne, Anne
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Synopsis "Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700-1840"
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
