Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Avian Encounters and Moral Sentiment in Poetry from Eighteenth-Century Ireland

Chapter 3 Ortolans, Partridges, and Pullets: Birds as Prey in Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones

Chapter 4 ‘In Clouds Unnumber’d’: Anna Letitia Barbauld’s ‘Birds and Insects’, Speculative Ecology, and the Politics of Naturalism

Chapter 5 Charlotte Smith and the Nightingale

Chapter 6 The Labouring-Class Bird

Chapter 7 The Language of Birds and the Language of Real Men: Wordsworth, Coleridge and the ‘Best Part’ of Language

Chapter 8 ‘No Parrot, Either in Morality or Sentiment’: Talking Birds and Mechanical Copying in the Age of Sensibility

Chapter 9 Placing Birds in Place: Reading Habitat in Beilby’s and Bewick’s History of British Birds

Chapter 10 The Literary Gilbert White

Chapter 12 Bird Metaphors in Racialised Ethnographic Description, c. 1700–1800

Chapter 13 ‘The Incomparable Curiosity of Every Feather!’: Cotton Mather’s Birds

Chapter 14 The Passenger Pigeon and the New World Myth of Plenitude