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Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700–1840

Palgrave Macmillan
  • 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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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Introduction

    • Brycchan Carey, Sayre Greenfield, Anne Milne
    Pages 1-15
  3. Charlotte Smith and the Nightingale

    • Bethan Roberts
    Pages 71-89
  4. The Labouring-Class Bird

    • Nancy M. Derbyshire
    Pages 91-110
  5. The Literary Gilbert White

    • Brycchan Carey
    Pages 173-192
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 269-284

About this book

This book examines literary representations of birds from across the world in an
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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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Humanities, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Brycchan Carey

  • Division of Humanities, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, Greensburg, USA

    Sayre Greenfield

  • Department of English, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Canada

    Anne Milne

About the editors

Brycchan Carey is Professor of English at Northumbria University, Newcastle
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

Buy it now

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eBook USD 89.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 119.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 119.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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