Daybooks of discovery : nature diaries in Britain, 1770-1870 / Mary Ellen Bellanca.
| Author/creator | Bellanca, Mary Ellen, 1958- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007. |
| Description | x, 286 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| Series | Under the sign of nature Under the sign of nature. ^A486502 |
| Contents | Introduction : "shining like green flames" -- Observing by the day : a natural history of nature diaries -- "Ephemerae innumerable" : nature uncontained in Gilbert White's journals -- "Go and do likewise" : the nineteenth-century cult of white, mass-market natural history, and the nature diary in popular literature -- Communities of knowledge : Dorothy Wordsworth, natural history, and the web of nineteenth-century topography -- "I am going to turn author" : scientific self-fashioning in the Journal of Emily Shore -- Desacralizing nature : George Eliot's "Recollections of Ilfracombe," seaside natural history, and Victorian women's nature writing -- Catching the white tiger's skin : Gerard Manley Hopkins's journal and the poetics of natural history -- Conclusion : the 1870s and beyond. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-277) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006033638 |
| ISBN | 9780813926124 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0813926122 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9780813926131 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0813926130 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PR908.B46 2007 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |