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In the long nineteenth century, scientists discovered striking
similarities between how birds learn to sing and how children learn
to speak. Tracing the 'science of birdsong' as it developed from
the 'ingenious' experiments of Daines Barrington to the
evolutionary arguments of Charles Darwin, Francesca Mackenney
reveals a legacy of thought which informs, and consequently affords
fresh insights into, a canonical group of poems about birdsong in
the Romantic and Victorian periods. With a particular focus on the
writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Wordsworth siblings, John
Clare and Thomas Hardy, her book explores how poets responded to an
analogy which challenged definitions of language and therefore of
what it means to be human. Drawing together responses to birdsong
in science, music and poetry, her distinctive interdisciplinary
approach challenges many of the long-standing cultural assumptions
which have shaped (and continue to shape) how we respond to other
creatures in the Anthropocene.
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