Author: Mary Russell Mitford
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Our Village
Author: Mary Russell Mitford
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Novel Environments
Author: Jayne Hildebrand
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019288848X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The environment concept has shaped humanity's relationship to the natural world and has drawn attention to the effects of human actions on our natural surroundings. But when did we learn that we live in an environment? While scholars have often located the emergence of the environment concept in twentieth-century ecological and political thought, Novel Environments: Science, Description, and Victorian Fiction reconstructs a longer—and a specifically literary—history. It was in the descriptive worldmaking of the Victorian novel that the environment was first transformed from an abstraction into a vivid object of imagination and feeling. Engaging the scientific theories of their contemporaries, Mary Russell Mitford, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Robert Louis Stevenson turned to detailed description—from gardens and landscapes to weather and atmospheres-to model interactions between life and its surroundings. Far from merely furnishing static background, the descriptive apparatus of the Victorian novel imagined the nonhuman environment as dynamically involved with human action, feeling, and development. In making this argument, Novel Environments recovers the scientific vocabulary the Victorians used to name the surroundings of living organisms. The word "environment" dominates our own way of speaking about the nonhuman world, but nineteenth-century scientific writers and novelists availed themselves of a richer conceptual lexicon, which included "environment" along with less familiar concepts such as "milieu," "medium," and "circumstance." Jayne Hildebrand traces the development of Victorian environmental thought from the earliest theorization of physical surroundings as a dynamic influence in the life sciences, through the idea of a singular "medium" in mid-century organicism, to the conception of the planet as an environmental system at the fin-de-siècle. By showing how novelistic description helped to produce the modern environment concept, Hildebrand sheds new light on the relationship between Victorian literature and the life sciences, and reveals how literary form has shaped the ecological ideas through which we apprehend the nonhuman world.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019288848X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The environment concept has shaped humanity's relationship to the natural world and has drawn attention to the effects of human actions on our natural surroundings. But when did we learn that we live in an environment? While scholars have often located the emergence of the environment concept in twentieth-century ecological and political thought, Novel Environments: Science, Description, and Victorian Fiction reconstructs a longer—and a specifically literary—history. It was in the descriptive worldmaking of the Victorian novel that the environment was first transformed from an abstraction into a vivid object of imagination and feeling. Engaging the scientific theories of their contemporaries, Mary Russell Mitford, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Robert Louis Stevenson turned to detailed description—from gardens and landscapes to weather and atmospheres-to model interactions between life and its surroundings. Far from merely furnishing static background, the descriptive apparatus of the Victorian novel imagined the nonhuman environment as dynamically involved with human action, feeling, and development. In making this argument, Novel Environments recovers the scientific vocabulary the Victorians used to name the surroundings of living organisms. The word "environment" dominates our own way of speaking about the nonhuman world, but nineteenth-century scientific writers and novelists availed themselves of a richer conceptual lexicon, which included "environment" along with less familiar concepts such as "milieu," "medium," and "circumstance." Jayne Hildebrand traces the development of Victorian environmental thought from the earliest theorization of physical surroundings as a dynamic influence in the life sciences, through the idea of a singular "medium" in mid-century organicism, to the conception of the planet as an environmental system at the fin-de-siècle. By showing how novelistic description helped to produce the modern environment concept, Hildebrand sheds new light on the relationship between Victorian literature and the life sciences, and reveals how literary form has shaped the ecological ideas through which we apprehend the nonhuman world.
Flagg's The far West...pt.2, and De Smet's Letters and sketches...v.28, Farnham's Travels in the great western prairies...pt.1
Author: Reuben Gold Thwaites
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Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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The Ladies' Repository
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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The Sketch
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Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Languages : en
Pages : 602
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A Grammatical Sketch of Hainan Cham
Author: Graham Thurgood
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1614518777
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
This volume is a grammatical sketch of Hainan Cham, an endangered tonal Austronesian language. The study focuses on three areas: social background and contact history, the grammar (including all the recorded vocabulary), and a description of the sound system (including acoustic description). The appendixes also include the wordlist of Sanya Chinese forms and four analyzed texts.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1614518777
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
This volume is a grammatical sketch of Hainan Cham, an endangered tonal Austronesian language. The study focuses on three areas: social background and contact history, the grammar (including all the recorded vocabulary), and a description of the sound system (including acoustic description). The appendixes also include the wordlist of Sanya Chinese forms and four analyzed texts.
Arthur's Home Magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 912
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Languages : en
Pages : 912
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ...
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Nation and Migration
Author: Juliet Shields
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190272554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Nation and Migration provides a literary history for a nation that still considers itself a land of immigrants, exploring the significant contributions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to the development of a British Atlantic literature and culture
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190272554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Nation and Migration provides a literary history for a nation that still considers itself a land of immigrants, exploring the significant contributions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to the development of a British Atlantic literature and culture
The Literary magnet of the belles lettres, science, and the fine arts, ed. by Tobias Merton. Vol.1 - new ser., vol.[2. Vol.2 of the new ser. wants all after p.192].
Author: Tobias Merton (pseud)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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