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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Gilbert White"”.
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Between Wildness and Art: Ecology and Agency in Victorian Literature
… Gaskell and, above all, by the iconic figure of Gilbert White of Selborne, presents a sympathetic attentiveness to non-human nature, but without significant activity on its behalf. This dissertation goes on to argue that the idea of human responsibility for non-human degradation, though uncommon …
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Managing Nature in the Age of Enlightenment: The Practice of Natural History in Britain, 1760-1820
… Banks (1743–1820), Thomas Pennant (1726–98) and Gilbert White (1720–93), this dissertation examines the integration of printed books into the practice of natural history. Although there has been significant work on the development of philosophical systems for classifying nature and on the …
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The Sixth Creek
… a model inspired by nature writers such as Gilbert White and Edward Abbey, whose work focussed on their local landscape yet achieved intercontinental reach in terms of impact on environmental ethics. The intention is for the poems to fall within contemporary boundaries of ecopoetry with …