The song of the earth
By: Jonathan Bate.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Romanticism -- Great Britain; Nature in literature
Description: "Jonathan Bate offers us the first ecological reading of English literature. What are the distinctions between 'nature', 'culture' and 'environment', and to what extent have their perception and significance changed since their appearance in the literature of the eighteenth century?" "The Song of the Earth ranges from greenhouses in the novels of Jane Austen to fruit bats in the poetry of Les Murray, by way of Thomas Hardy's woodlands, the rise of picturesque tourism, John Clare's birds' nests, Wordsworth's rivers, Byron's bear and an early nineteenth-century novel about an organ-utan who stands for Parliament."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-320) and index.