"We teach 'em airs that way" : bird-sounds, language and the mind in nineteenth-century literature

Poets, linguists, ornithologists and musicologists have wrestled with the apparently irreconcilable difference between the language of birds and the human forms that attempt to 'recapture' its 'rapture', in Browning's phrase. My thesis traces an alternative approach that was...

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Main Author: Mackenney, Francesca
Published: University of Bristol 2016
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.701810