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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Francesca Mackenney (University of Leeds)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.520kg ISBN: 9781316513712ISBN 10: 1316513718 Pages: 250 Publication Date: 22 September 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The science of birdsong: 1773-1871; 2. The science of language: 1755-1873; 3. 'Prelusive notes': Coleridge and the Wordsworths; 4. 'Undersong': John Clare; 5. 'We Teach 'Em Airs That Way': Thomas Hardy; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.Reviews'... this carefully argued, sensitively written book adds substantially to the growing body of interdisciplinary work that examines literature in the context of questioning Anthropocene assumptions about what it is to be human, and the cultural history of our responses to the more-than-human world.' Sara Lodge, Times Literary Supplement 'Mackenney's wide-ranging knowledge of the nineteenth-century science offers compelling readings of canonical and non-canonical works to raise burgeoning questions about race, gender and class in literature of the long nineteenth century.' Hee Eun Helen Lee, www.review19.org '… this carefully argued, sensitively written book adds substantially to the growing body of interdisciplinary work that examines literature in the context of questioning Anthropocene assumptions about what it is to be human, and the cultural history of our responses to the more-than-human world.' Sara Lodge, Times Literary Supplement 'Mackenney's wide-ranging knowledge of the nineteenth-century science offers compelling readings of canonical and non-canonical works to raise burgeoning questions about race, gender and class in literature of the long nineteenth century.' Hee Eun Helen Lee, www.review19.org Author InformationFrancesca Mackenney is a Research and Teaching Fellow in Romanticism at the University of Leeds. Her research and related work in environmental education has been funded by an AHRC Doctoral Award, a BARS/Wordsworth Trust Early Career Fellowship, an award from Creative Scotland and an AHRC International Placement at the Library of Congress. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |