Trees in Nineteenth-Century English Fiction: The Silvicultural Novel

ISBN-13: 9780367369040 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 232 str.

Anna Burton

Opis

This is a book about a longstanding network of writers and writings that celebrate the aesthetic, socio-political, scientific, ecological, geographical, and historical value of trees and tree spaces in the landscape; and it is a study of the effect of this tree-writing upon the novel form in the long nineteenth century.

O autorze

Anna Burton is an early career researcher and teaching fellow at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests include long nineteenth-century literature, natural history, nature writing, and the afterlives of the ‘Picturesque’.