Bees, Science, and Sex in the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century

Bees, Science, and Sex in the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Harley, Alexis (Editor), Harrington, Christopher (Editor)
Summary:XIV, 230 p. 3 illus.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Edition:1st ed. 2024.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature,
Subjects:
Literature, Modern > 19th century.
Ecocriticism.
Literature > History and criticism.
Animal welfare > Moral and ethical aspects.
Science > History.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Literary Criticism.
Animal Ethics.
History of Science.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39570-3
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: honey, wax, pollination Alexis Harley, La Trobe University, Christopher Harrington, La Trobe University
  • Chapter 2. “Science and the Sacred Honeybee in the Nineteenth Century” Diane M. Rodgers, Northern Illinois University
  • Chapter 3. “Housewives and Old Wives: sex and superstition in English Beekeeping” Adam Ebert, Mount Mercy University
  • Chapter 4. “Unsettling Homes”: Honeybees, Georgiana Molloy and Colonial Beekeeping in Australia Jessica White, University of Adelaide
  • Chapter 5. “The Social Insect and the Fashionable Newspaper”: Bee Poetry in the Oracle and World Claire Knowles, La Trobe University
  • Chapter 6. “A Nineteenth-Century Beeography: Lucy Peacock’s The Life of a Bee Related by Herself (1800)” Samantha George, University of Hertfordshire
  • Chapter 7. “Keats’s Honeybees: Sound, Passion, and Natural Prophecy” Hermione de Almeida, Universityof Tulsa.-Chapter 8. “Bumblebees and Emily Dickinson” Camilla Chen, Oxford University
  • Chapter 9. A Hive Turned Upside Down: Drone Bees and the Chartist Imaginary Christopher Harrington, La Trobe University
  • Chapter 10. “Through the Agency of Bees”: Charles Darwin, John Lubbock, and the Secret Lives of Plants and People” Jonathan Smith, University of Michigan
  • Chapter 11. “Queens and Drones in Thomas Hardy’s Wessex” Alexis Harley, La Trobe University
  • Chapter 12. “The Experimental Eminence of Darwin’s Bees” John Clark, St Andrews University.

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