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Natures in translation : romanticism and colonial natural history /
"For many critics, Romanticism is synonymous with nature writing, for representations of the natural world appear during this period with a freshness, concreteness, depth, and intensity that have rarely been equaled. Why did nature matter so much to writers of the late eighteenth and early nine...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2017.
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Table des matières:
- Introduction: natures in translation
- Erasmus Darwin's cosmopolitan nature
- Traveling natures
- Translating early Australian natural history
- An England of the mind: Gilbert White and the black-bobs of Selborne
- William Bartram's Travels and the contested natures of Southeast America
- "I see around me things which you cannot see": William Wordsworth and the historical ecology of human passion
- John Clare and the ghosts of natures past
- Of weeds and men: evolution and the science of modern natures
- Frankenstein and the origin and extinction of species.