Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700–1840

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
 Introduction  (Brycchan Carey, Sayre Greenfield, Anne Milne)....Pages 1-15
 Avian Encounters and Moral Sentiment in Poetry from Eighteenth-Century Ireland  (Lucy Collins)....Pages 17-37
 Ortolans, Partridges, and Pullets: Birds as Prey in Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones  (Leslie Aronson)....Pages 39-50
 ‘In Clouds Unnumber’d’: Anna Letitia Barbauld’s ‘Birds and Insects’, Speculative Ecology, and the Politics of Naturalism  (D. T. Walker)....Pages 51-70
 Charlotte Smith and the Nightingale  (Bethan Roberts)....Pages 71-89
 The Labouring-Class Bird  (Nancy M. Derbyshire)....Pages 91-110
 The Language of Birds and the Language of Real Men: Wordsworth, Coleridge and the ‘Best Part’ of Language  (Francesca Mackenney)....Pages 111-129
 ‘No Parrot, Either in Morality or Sentiment’: Talking Birds and Mechanical Copying in the Age of Sensibility  (Alex Wetmore)....Pages 131-150
 Placing Birds in Place: Reading Habitat in Beilby’s and Bewick’s History of British Birds  (Anne Milne)....Pages 151-171
 The Literary Gilbert White  (Brycchan Carey)....Pages 173-192
 When Poet Meets Penguin: British Verse Confronts Exotic Avifauna  (Sayre Greenfield)....Pages 193-209
 Bird Metaphors in Racialised Ethnographic Description, c. 1700–1800  (George T. Newberry)....Pages 211-229
 ‘The Incomparable Curiosity of Every Feather!’: Cotton Mather’s Birds  (Nicholas Junkerman)....Pages 231-246
 The Passenger Pigeon and the New World Myth of Plenitude  (Kevin Joel Berland)....Pages 247-267
Back Matter ....Pages 269-284