Natures in Translation : Romanticism and Colonial Natural History /

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"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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Main Author: Bewell, Alan, 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Romanticism.
Nature in literature.
Natural history in literature.
English literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Romantisme > Anglophonie.
Sciences naturelles dans la litterature.
Nature dans la litterature.
Litterature anglaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Romanticism > English-speaking countries.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English-speaking countries.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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