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 nineteenth...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bewell, Alan, 1951- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2017]
Subjects:	English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. English literature > 18th century > History and criticism. Nature in literature. Natural history in literature. Romanticism > English-speaking countries.

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.