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Daybooks of Discovery: Nature Diaries in Britain, 1770-1870 (Under the Sign of Nature)
Mary Ellen Bellanca
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Paperback. Rooted in a thriving culture of amateur natural history, the keeping of nature journals and diaries flourished in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Britain. This book offers a critical study of this genre. Each chapter situates an individual author's journals amid contemporary discourses of natural history. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 395.
Rooted in a thriving culture of amateur natural history, the keeping of nature journals and diaries flourished in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Britain. As prescientific worldviews ceded to a more materialist outlook informed by an explosion of factual knowledge, lovers of nature both famous and obscure began to use daily composition as a quest for information about and a celebration of their surroundings. A central site of encounter, discovery, and expression, nature diaries took part in a vigorous cultural dialogue, performing, in an era called the ""golden age"" of nature writing, an engaging alchemy of language, science, and art. In ""Daybooks of ... Read more
Rooted in a thriving culture of amateur natural history, the keeping of nature journals and diaries flourished in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Britain. As prescientific worldviews ceded to a more materialist outlook informed by an explosion of factual knowledge, lovers of nature both famous and obscure began to use daily composition as a quest for information about and a celebration of their surroundings. A central site of encounter, discovery, and expression, nature diaries took part in a vigorous cultural dialogue, performing, in an era called the ""golden age"" of nature writing, an engaging alchemy of language, science, and art. In ""Daybooks of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813926131
SKU
V9780813926131
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99-16
About Mary Ellen Bellanca
Mary Ellen Bellanca is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Carolina Sumter.
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