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1035055
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b789425
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| Main Entry
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Williams, Jeni.
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Interpreting nightingales : : gender, class, and histories /\ Jeni Williams.
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| Publication Statement
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Sheffield :: Academic Press,, 1997.
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1 online resource (299 pages)
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| ISBN
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1847141854
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: 9781847141859
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1850758085
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9781847141859
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9781850758082
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Includes bibliographical references ([247]-260.
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| Contents
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AcknowledgementsIntroduction. Reflecting on the Nightingale.1. Sorrowful Weaving: Nightingales in Greek and Latin texts2. Christian Nightingales: Transforming the Classical to the Christian; the Sacred to the Erotic3. Debating Class and Gender: Medieval English Nightingales4. Fragmentation and Alienation: Victorian Nightingales5. Bitter Confusions: Barrett Browning among the NightingalesAppendix 1. Nightingales in Classical LiteratureAppendix 2. Christian Latin PoemsNotesBibliographyIndex of Names and Titles .
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| Abstract
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The poetic nightingale is so familiar it seems hardly to merit serious attention. Yet its ubiquity is significant, suggesting associations with erotic love, pathos and art that cross culture and history. This book examines the different nightingales of European literature, starting with the Greek myth of Philomela, the raped girl, silenced by having her tongue cut out, and then transformed into the bird whose name means poet, poetry and nightingale simultaneously. Moving from the classical to the Christian worlds, Jeni Williams discusses nightingales and nature in the early church and sees the.
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Literature-- Philosophy.
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Nightingale in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- General.
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Literature-- Philosophy.
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Nightingale in literature.
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TRAVEL-- Special Interest-- Literary.
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Letterkunde.
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Nachtegalen.
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| Dewey Classification
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809/.9336
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| LC Classification
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PN56.N54W55 1997eb
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17.93bcl
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