The Letters To Gilbert White Of Selborne From His Intimate Friend And Contemporary The Rev John Mulso
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The Life and Letters of Gilbert White of Selborne
Author | : Rashleigh Holt-White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Naturalists |
ISBN | : |
Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century
Author | : Frank O'Gorman |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2005-12-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230518885 |
The Eighteenth century is often represented, applying Tom Paine's phrase, as 'The Age of Reason': an age when progressive ideals triumphed over autocracy and obscurantism, and when notions of order and balance shaped consciousness in every sphere of human knowledge. Yet the debates which surrounded the development of Eighteenth-century thought were always open to troubling doubts. Was nature itself truly an ordered entity, as Newton had argued, or was it a mass of chaotic, randomly moving atoms, as some materialist thinkers believed? This book explores the tensions and conflicts in these debates through a series of interdisciplinary essays from leading international scholars, each challenging the idea that the Eighteenth century was an age of order.
The Rural Tradition
Author | : William J. Keith |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 475 |
Release | : 1974-12-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1487586329 |
'There is probably no single quality or characteristic – besides love of the countryside – that must inevitably distinguish a rural writer,' notes W.J. Keith. However, 'what distinguishes rural writing that belongs to literature from that belonging to natural history, agricultural history, etc., is, as Richard E. Haymaker has observed, the writer's "means of revealing Nature as well as describing her"...In the final analysis the rural essayist paints neither landscapes nor self-portraits; instead he communicates the subtle relationship between himself and his environment, offering for our inspection his own attitudes and his own vision. We may be asked to look or to agree, but more than anything else we are invited to share. Ultimately, then, the best rural writing may be said to provide us, in a phrase adapted from Robert Langbaum, with a prose of experience.' Keith argues that non-fiction rural prose should be recognized as a distinct literary tradition that merits serious critical attention. In this book he tests the cogency of thinking in terms of a 'rural tradition,' examines the critical problems inherent in such writing, and traces significant continuities between rural writers. Eleven of the more important and influential writers from the seventeenth century to modern times come under individual scrutiny: Izaak Walton, Gilbert White, William Cobbett, Mary Russell Mitford, George Borrow, Richard Jefferies, George Sturt/'George Bourne', W.H. Hudson, Edward Thomas Williamson, and H.J. Massingham. In examining these writers within the context of the rural tradition, Keith rescues their works from the literary attic where they have too often been relegated as awkward misfits. When studied together, each throws fascinating light on the others and is seen to fit into a loose but nonetheless discernible 'line.'
The Annals of Scottish Natural History
Author | : John Alexander Harvie-Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Natural history |
ISBN | : |
Deep Things Out of Darkness
Author | : John G. T. Anderson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0520273761 |
Natural history, the deliberate observation of the environment, is arguably the oldest science. From purely practical beginnings as a way of finding food and shelter, natural history evolved into the holistic, systematic study of plants, animals, and the landscape. This book chronicles the rise, decline, and ultimate revival of natural history within the realms of science and public discourse. It charts the journey of the naturalist's endeavour from prehistory to the present, underscoring the need for natural history in an era of dynamic environmental change.
Reading Daughters' Fictions 1709-1834
Author | : Caroline Gonda |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1996-03-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521553957 |
It has been argued that the eighteenth century witnessed a decline in paternal authority, and the emergence of more intimate, affectionate relationships between parent and child. In Reading Daughters' Fictions, Caroline Gonda draws on a wide range of novels and non-literary materials from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in order to examine changing representations of the father-daughter bond. She shows that heroine-centred novels, aimed at a predominantly female readership, had an important part to play in female socialization and the construction of heterosexuality, in which the father-daughter relationship had a central role. Contemporary diatribes against novels claimed that reading fiction produced rebellious daughters, fallen women, and nervous female wrecks. Gonda's study of novels of family life and courtship suggests that, far from corrupting the female reader, such fictions helped to maintain rather than undermine familial and social order.