Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature - Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700-1840 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

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

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
Release date:	September 2020
First published:	2020
Editors:	Brycchan Carey • Sayre Greenfield • Anne Milne
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	284
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-032791-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
LSN:	3-03-032791-4
Barcode:	9783030327910

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