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- Title
Charlotte Smith's Intertextual Ecology.
- Authors
Reece, Josephine
- Abstract
As Melissa Bailes has noted Smith borrowed extensively from other authors and, during her lifetime, was recognized, and sometimes criticized, for doing so.[3] In I A Natural History of Birds i , Smith makes natural history almost entirely a literary matter - concerned with how birds have been read and described, rather than an objective definition. Labbe's analysis of Smith's reinterpretation of the fable genre in these two bird fables takes up the question of their inclusion in both I A i I Natural History of Birds i and I Beachy Head i but does not delve into their prose contexts. The Textual Environment Given the situational nature of human associations and beliefs about birds, Smith uses fables and myths to map out each birds' outline in the cultural space. In her poem "The Swallow", which closes her 1807 text, I A i I Natural History of Birds Intended Chiefly for Young Persons i , Charlotte Smith turns to a surprising source to address the perplexing question of swallow migration.
- Subjects
ANIMAL welfare; HUMAN-animal relationships; DAUGHTERS; WOMEN'S writings; CHILDREN'S writings; NATURAL history; PUNISHMENT; LITERARY interpretation; FEMALES
- Publication
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature & Environment, 2023, Vol 30, Issue 3, p728
- ISSN
1076-0962
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/isle/isab028