Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700-1840

Book Overview

1. Introduction; Brycchan Carey, Sayre Greenfield, and Anne Milne.- 2. Avian Encounters and Moral Sentiment in Poetry from Eighteenth-Century Ireland; Lucy Collins.- 3. Ortolans, Partridges, and Pullets: Birds as Prey in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones; Leslie Aronson.- 4. 'In Clouds Unnumber'd': Anna Letitia Barbauld's 'Birds and Insects', Speculative Ecology, and the Politics of Naturalism; D. T. Walker.- 5. Charlotte Smith and the Nightingale;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030327949
• ISBN13: 9783030327941
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"