Nightingale
Erschienen am 11. Oktober 2021
1 Seiten
978-1-78914-475-8 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
The nightingale has a unique place in cultural history: the most prized of songbirds, it has inspired more poems than any other creature, and is also the most mythologized of birds. Nightingale juxtaposes the bird of poetry, music, myth and lore with the living bird of wood and scrubland, unpicking the entangled relationship between them. Covering a huge range of poets, musicians, artists, nature writers and natural historians, from Aristotle, Keats and Vera Lynn to Bob Dylan, Nightingale charts our fascination through history with this nondescript yet melodious little brown bird. It also documents the nightingale's disappearance from British breeding grounds, and the implications this has for its conservation.
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
London
Großbritannien
Dateigröße
26,69 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78914-475-8 (9781789144758)
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Bethan Roberts
Nightingale
Buch
10/2021
Reaktion Books
21,00 €
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Bethan Roberts is the William Noble Postdoctoral Research Associate in English at the University of Liverpool. She is author of Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet: Form, Place and Tradition in the Late Eighteenth Century (2019).
Inhalt
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: 'No Better Dress than Russet Brown'
- 1: Natural History Nightingales: 'When the Buds of the Leaves Are Swelling'
- 2: Literary Nightingales: 'Old-World Pain'
- 3: Literary Nightingales: 'Selfsame Song'
- 4: Musical Nightingales: 'Organ of Delight'
- 5: 'Immortal Bird'? Nightingales in Decline
- Timeline
- References
- Select Bibliography
- Associations and Websites
- Acknowledgements
- Photo Acknowledgements
- Index
