James Montgomery's Pelican Island: imagination, religion, evolution

Lansdown, Richard (2014) James Montgomery's Pelican Island: imagination, religion, evolution. Wordsworth Circle, 45 (1). pp. 39-48.

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Abstract

A critical analysis of James Montgomery's 'mini-epic', the nine-canto 'Pelican Island' (1828) in terms of its context in British and Continental geological knowledge -- specifically of coral islands in the Pacific -- in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Item ID: 32790
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 0043-8006
Keywords: James Montgomery; Pelican Island; coral; Pacific; evolution
Date Deposited: 19 Jun 2014 02:56
FoR Codes: 20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2005 Literary Studies > 200503 British and Irish Literature @ 100%
SEO Codes: 97 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture @ 100%
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