Natures in translation : romanticism and colonial natural history / Alan Bewell.
Natures in translation : romanticism and colonial natural history / Alan Bewell.
Natures in translation : romanticism and colonial natural history / Alan Bewell.
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Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
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H 2017/791
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English
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xvii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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...
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Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
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Maryland
Date Published
2017.
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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 nineteenth centuries? And how did it play such an important...
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Natures in translation : romanticism and colonial natural history / Alan Bewell.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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H 2017/791
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74VKVVeO4dQX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVVeO4dQX
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9781421420967 hardcover alkaline paper
1421420961 hardcover alkaline paper
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820.936
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991024098382702626
