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Natures in Translation: Romanticism and Colonial Natural History
Alan Bewell
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Description for Natures in Translation: Romanticism and Colonial Natural History
Hardback. Ultimately, Natures in Translation demonstrates that-far from being separate from the dominant concerns of British imperial culture-nature was integrally bound up with the business of empire. Num Pages: 416 pages, 12, 12 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 31. Weight in Grams: 670.
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 role in their understanding of themselves and the world? In Natures in Translation, Alan Bewell argues that there is no Nature in the singular, only natures that have undergone transformation through time and across space. He examines how writers-as disparate as Erasmus ... Read more
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 role in their understanding of themselves and the world? In Natures in Translation, Alan Bewell argues that there is no Nature in the singular, only natures that have undergone transformation through time and across space. He examines how writers-as disparate as Erasmus ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421420967
SKU
V9781421420967
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99-1
About Alan Bewell
Alan Bewell is a professor and the chair of the Department of English at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Wordsworth and the Enlightenment: Nature, Man, and Society in the Experimental Poetry and Romanticism and Colonial Disease.
Reviews for Natures in Translation: Romanticism and Colonial Natural History
Recommended.
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I consider this critically innovative and beautifully written book essential reading not only for scholars and enthusiasts of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literatures, but for anyone interested in gaining new insights into the literary history of environmentalism.
Review 19
... highly readable account...
The John Clare Society Journal
Natures in Translation offers a ... Read more
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I consider this critically innovative and beautifully written book essential reading not only for scholars and enthusiasts of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literatures, but for anyone interested in gaining new insights into the literary history of environmentalism.
Review 19
... highly readable account...
The John Clare Society Journal
Natures in Translation offers a ... Read more