Overview
- Considers a wide range of authors, including some of the most celebrated figures in eighteenth-century literature such as John Gay, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Anna Letitia Barbauld, William Cowper, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Bewick, Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, and Gilbert White
- Constitutes the first attempt to consider birds in eighteenth-century literature
- Offers important new perspectives into the ways birds populate and generate cultural meaning in a variety of literary and non-literary genres from 1700–1840 as well as throughout a broad range of ecosystems and bioregions
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature (PSAAL)
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age of expanding European colonialism. It offers important new perspectives into
the ways birds populate and generate cultural meaning in a variety of literary and
non-literary genres from 1700–1840 as well as throughout a broad range of
ecosystems and bioregions. It considers a wide range of authors, including some
of the most celebrated figures in eighteenth-century literature such as John Gay,
Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Anna Letitia Barbauld, William Cowper, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Thomas Bewick, Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, and
Gilbert White.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Book Subtitle: Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700–1840
Editors: Brycchan Carey, Sayre Greenfield, Anne Milne
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32792-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32791-0Published: 23 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32794-1Published: 24 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32792-7Published: 22 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6338
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6346
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 284
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Eighteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction