Natures in Translation Bewell Alan
Natures in Translation Bewell Alan For many critics, Romanticism is synonymous with nature writing, for representations of the natural world appear during this period with a freshness, concreteness,…
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Natures in Translation Bewell Alan
For many critics, Romanticism is synonymous with nature writing, for representations of the natural world appear during this period with a freshness, concreteness, depth, and intensity that have rarely been equaled. And how did it play such an important role in their understanding of themselves and the world?In Natures in Translation, Alan Bewell argues that there is no Nature in the singular, only natures that have undergone transformation through time and across space. Why did nature matter so much to writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?
Bewell presents British natural history as a He examines how writers--as disparate as Erasmus and Charles Darwin, Joseph Banks, Gilbert White, William Bartram, William Wordsworth, John Clare, and Mary Shelley--understood a world in which natures were traveling and resettling the globe like never before.