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Natures in translation : romanticism and colonial natural history
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Natures in translation : romanticism and colonial natural history / Alan Bewell.
ISBN
9781421420967
1421420961
9781421420974
142142097X
Publication
Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
xvii, 393 pages ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 24, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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