Alexander Wilson

Enlightened Naturalist

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British, American
Cover of the book Alexander Wilson by Edward H. Burtt Jr., Gerard Carruthers, Frank Gill, Irving N. Rothman, Rick Wright, John Kricher, William E. Davis Jr., Bucknell University Press
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Author: Edward H. Burtt Jr., Gerard Carruthers, Frank Gill, Irving N. Rothman, Rick Wright, John Kricher, William E. Davis Jr. ISBN: 9781611487954
Publisher: Bucknell University Press Publication: November 10, 2016
Imprint: Bucknell University Press Language: English
Author: Edward H. Burtt Jr., Gerard Carruthers, Frank Gill, Irving N. Rothman, Rick Wright, John Kricher, William E. Davis Jr.
ISBN: 9781611487954
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Publication: November 10, 2016
Imprint: Bucknell University Press
Language: English

When talking about the Enlightenment, ornithology is seldom the first topic of conversation. Still, Enlightenment and ornithology converge in one important respect, that of abundance. In our time, new-wave ornithologists have renewed their faith in eighteenth-century expectations for the discovery of a gigantic number of bird species. It is at this intersection between abundant modern science and ambitious Enlightenment ideology that this remarkable collection of five essays on Alexander Wilson (1766-1813), the father of American ornithology, makes its original and delightful contribution. Alexander Wilson: Enlightened Naturalist recovers Wilson’s literary, artistic and musical pursuits, and the cultural contexts of his life in the Scotland of Robert Burns. It also explores Wilson’s scientific and philosophic contribution to American ornithology in American Ornithology; or The Natural History of the Birds of the**United States, published in Philadelphia between 1808 and 1814. Alexander Wilson is richly illustrated, links to a web site of audio readings of Wilson’s Scots poems– links that are embedded in the ebook–and includes a tribute to the late Edward H. Burtt, Jr., who died shortly before publication.

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When talking about the Enlightenment, ornithology is seldom the first topic of conversation. Still, Enlightenment and ornithology converge in one important respect, that of abundance. In our time, new-wave ornithologists have renewed their faith in eighteenth-century expectations for the discovery of a gigantic number of bird species. It is at this intersection between abundant modern science and ambitious Enlightenment ideology that this remarkable collection of five essays on Alexander Wilson (1766-1813), the father of American ornithology, makes its original and delightful contribution. Alexander Wilson: Enlightened Naturalist recovers Wilson’s literary, artistic and musical pursuits, and the cultural contexts of his life in the Scotland of Robert Burns. It also explores Wilson’s scientific and philosophic contribution to American ornithology in American Ornithology; or The Natural History of the Birds of the**United States, published in Philadelphia between 1808 and 1814. Alexander Wilson is richly illustrated, links to a web site of audio readings of Wilson’s Scots poems– links that are embedded in the ebook–and includes a tribute to the late Edward H. Burtt, Jr., who died shortly before publication.

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