Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700–1840

Brycchan Carey is Professor of English at Northumbria University, Newcastleupon Tyne, UK. The author of numerous publications on eighteenth-centuryliterature and culture, his monographs include British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760–1807 (2005) and From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1657–1761 (2012).

Sayre Greenfield is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh atGreensburg, USA. He has been a research fellow at Chawton House Library andhas recently contributed an essay on Shakespearean allusions to The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare and various essays on Austen to Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal . He is also the co-editor of Jane Austen in Hollywood (2001) and the author of The Ends of Allegory (1998).

Anne Milne is Lecturer at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada. Shewas a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society inMunich, Germany (2011) and published ‘ Lactilla Tends Her Fav’rite Cow’: Ecocritical Readings of Animals and Women in Eighteenth-Century British Labouring-Class Women’s Poetry in 2008. Her research highlights animals, environment, and localcultural production in eighteenth-century British poetry.