Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature
81,99 €
inkl. MwSt.
Versandkostenfrei*
Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen
  • Broschiertes Buch

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…mehr

Andere Kunden interessierten sich auch für
Produktbeschreibung
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
Autorenporträt
Brycchan Carey is Professor of English at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. The author of numerous publications on eighteenth-century literature and culture, his monographs include British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric 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 at Greensburg, USA. He has been a research fellow at Chawton House Library and has recently contributed an essay on Shakespearean allusions to The Cambridge Guide 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. She was a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany (2011) and published 'Lactilla Tends Her Fav'rite Cow': Ecocritical Readings of Animals and Women in Eighteenth-Century British Labouring-Class Women's Poetry in 2008. Her research highlights animals, environment, and local cultural production in eighteenth-century British poetry.