Author: Henry Dircks
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Category : Nature in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Nature-study; Or, The Art of Attaining Those Excellencies in Poetry and Eloquence which are Mainly Dependent on the Manifold Influences of Universal Nature
Author: Henry Dircks
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Category : Nature in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Naturalistic Poetry, Selected from Psalms and Hymns of the Last Three Centuries. In Four Essays, Etc
Author: Henry DIRCKS
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Naturalistic Poetry
Author: Henry Dircks
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382805111
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382805111
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Six Legs Better
Author: Charlotte Sleigh
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801892147
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This “provocative, complex” cultural history examines how the study of ants influenced shifting perceptions of humanity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Times Literary Supplement, UK). Ants long have fascinated linguists, human sociologists, and even cyberneticians. At the end of the nineteenth century, ants seemed to be admirable models for human life and were praised for their work ethic, communitarianism, and apparent empathy. They provided a natural-theological lesson on the relative importance of humans within creation and inspired psychologists to investigate the question of instinct and its place in the life of higher animals and humans. By the 1930s, however, ants came to symbolize one of modernity’s deepest fears: the loss of selfhood. Researchers then viewed the ant colony as an unthinking mass, easily ruled and slavishly organized. In this volume, Charlotte Sleigh uses specific representations of ants within the field of entomology from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries to explore the broader role of metaphors in science and their often unpredictable translations. Six Legs Better demonstrates the remarkable historical role played by ants as a node where notions of animal, human, and automaton intersect.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801892147
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This “provocative, complex” cultural history examines how the study of ants influenced shifting perceptions of humanity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Times Literary Supplement, UK). Ants long have fascinated linguists, human sociologists, and even cyberneticians. At the end of the nineteenth century, ants seemed to be admirable models for human life and were praised for their work ethic, communitarianism, and apparent empathy. They provided a natural-theological lesson on the relative importance of humans within creation and inspired psychologists to investigate the question of instinct and its place in the life of higher animals and humans. By the 1930s, however, ants came to symbolize one of modernity’s deepest fears: the loss of selfhood. Researchers then viewed the ant colony as an unthinking mass, easily ruled and slavishly organized. In this volume, Charlotte Sleigh uses specific representations of ants within the field of entomology from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries to explore the broader role of metaphors in science and their often unpredictable translations. Six Legs Better demonstrates the remarkable historical role played by ants as a node where notions of animal, human, and automaton intersect.
The Contemporary Review
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors
Author: Samuel Austin Allibone
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie Stephen
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin Allibone
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
The Book Buyer
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
A review and record of current literature.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
A review and record of current literature.
A supplement to Allibone's Critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors
Author: John Foster Kirk
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description