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  • Modern British Nature Writing, 1789–2020

    Land Lines

    by Will Abberley, Christina Alt, David Higgins, Graham Huggan, Pippa Marland ...
    Why do we speak so much of nature today when there is so little of it left? Prompted by this question, this study offers the first full-length exploration of modern British nature writing, from the late eighteenth century to the present. Focusing on non-fictional prose writing, the book supplies new readings of classic texts by Romantic, Victorian and Contemporary authors, situating these within ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture

    Nature, Science and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination

    by Will Abberley ...
    Series Book 123 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    Revealing the web of mutual influences between nineteenth-century scientific and cultural discourses of appearance, Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture argues that Victorian science and culture biologized appearance, reimagining imitation, concealment and self-presentation as evolutionary adaptations. Exploring how studies of animal crypsis and visibility drew on artistic theory and ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850–1914

    by Will Abberley ...
    Series Book 101 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    Victorian science changed language from a tool into a natural phenomenon, evolving independently of its speakers. Will Abberley explores how science and fiction interacted in imagining different stories of language evolution. Popular narratives of language progress clashed with others of decay and degeneration. Furthermore, the blurring of language evolution with biological evolution encouraged ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment

    by Timothy Clark ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    The degrading environment of the planet is something that touches everyone. This 2011 book offers an introductory overview of literary and cultural criticism that concerns environmental crisis in some form. Both as a way of reading texts and as a theoretical approach to culture more generally, 'ecocriticism' is a varied and fast-changing set of practices which challenges inherited thinking and ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature

    Edited by M. O. Grenby, Andrea Immel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling ... Read more

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  • Novel Science

    Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology

    by Adelene Buckland ...
    Novel Science is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the "heroic age" of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. For these men, literature was an essential part of the practice of science itself, as important to their efforts as mapmaking, fieldwork, and observation. The reading ... Read more

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  • Other Selves

    Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination

    Edited by Janice Fiamengo ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination begins with the premise, first suggested by Margaret Atwood in The Animals in That Country (1968), that animals have occupied a peculiarly central position in the Canadian imagination. Unlike the longer-settled countries of Europe or the more densely-populated United States, in Canada animals have always been the loved and feared co ... Read more

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  • Literature

    by Peter Widdowson ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    This introductory volume provides an overview of the history of Literature as a cultural concept, and reflects on the contemporary nature, place and function of what the literary might mean for us today. Literature:* offers a concise history of the canonic concept of 'literature' from its earliest origins* illustrates the kinds of theoretical issues which are currently invoked by the term ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment

    Edited by Louise Westling ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment is an authoritative guide to the exciting new interdisciplinary field of environmental literary criticism. The collection traces the development of ecocriticism from its origins in European pastoral literature and offers fifteen rigorous but accessible essays on the present state of environmental literary scholarship. Contributions from ... Read more

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  • Ireland and Ecocriticism

    Literature, History and Environmental Justice

    by Eóin Flannery ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
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    by Philip Armstrong ...
    What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity argues that nonhuman animals, and stories about them, have always been closely bound up with the conceptual and material work of modernity.In the first half of the book, Philip Armstrong examines the function of animals and animal representations in four classic narratives: Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travels, Frankenstein and Moby-Dick. He then goes ... Read more

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