This book examines literary representations of birds from across the world in anage of expanding European colonialism. It offers important new perspectives into
The natural history of birds By Georges Louis Buffon The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record
It is 2003, and Paul Arimond is serving as a paramedic in Afghanistan. The twenty-four-year-old has no illusions of becoming a hero. Rather, he has chosen the a
In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and
