Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature

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<div>This book examines literary representations of birds from across the world in an</div><div>age of expanding European colonialism. It offers important new perspectives into</div><div>the ways birds populate and generate cultural meaning in a variety of literary and</div><div>non-literary genres from 17001840 as well as throughout a broad range of</div><div>ecosystems and bioregions. It considers a wide range of authors, including some</div><div>of the most celebrated figures in eighteenth-century literature such as John Gay,</div><div>Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Anna Letitia Barbauld, William Cowper, Mary</div><div>Wollstonecraft, Thomas Bewick, Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, and</div><div>Gilbert White.</div><div><br></div><div> ignwogwog[p</div>

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<div><div>Brycchan Carey is Professor of English at Northumbria University, Newcastle</div><div>upon Tyne, UK. The author of numerous publications on eighteenth-century</div><div>literature and culture, his monographs include <i>British Abolitionism and the</i></div><div><i>Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760¿1807</i> (2005) and</div><div><i>From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery,</i></div><i>1657¿1761</i> (2012).</div><div> </div><div>Sayre Greenfield is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh at</div><div>Greensburg, USA. He has been a research fellow at Chawton House Library and</div><div>has recently contributed an essay on Shakespearean allusions to <i>The Cambridge</i></div><div><i>Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare</i> and various essays on Austen to <i>Persuasions:</i></div><i>The Jane Austen Journal</i>. He is also the co-editor of <i>Jane Austen in Hollywood</i><div>(2001) and the author of <i>The Ends of Allegory</i> (1998).</div><div> </div><div>Anne Milne is Lecturer at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada. She</div><div>was a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in</div><div>Munich, Germany (2011) and published `<i>Lactilla Tends Her Fav¿rite Cow¿: Ecocritical</i></div><div><i>Readings of Animals and Women in Eighteenth-Century British Labouring-Class</i></div><div><i>Women¿s Poetry</i> in 2008. Her research highlights animals, environment, and local</div><div>cultural production in eighteenth-century British poetry.</div>

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