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Bloom: the botanical vernacular in the English novel
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Amy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Botany in literature.
- Literature and science--Great Britain.
- Literature and science.
- Flowers in literature.
- Plants in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (276 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford University Press 2007
- Summary:
- Starting from the botanical crazes inspired by Linnaeus in the eighteenth century, and exploring the variations it spawned--natural history, landscape architecture, polemical battles over botany's prurience--this study offers a fresh, detailed reading of the courtship novel from Jane Austen toGeorge Eliot and Henry James. By reanimating a cultural understanding of botany and sexuality that we have lost, it provides an entirely new and powerful account of the novel's role in scripting sexualized courtship, and illuminates how the novel and popular science together created a culturalfigure, the blooming girl, that stood at the center of both fictional and scientific worlds.
- Notes:
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-257) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610532704
- 0-19-533909-6
- 0-19-516151-3
- 1-60256-991-6
- 0-19-803656-6
- 1-280-53270-X
- 0-19-028978-3
- OCLC:
- 51042092
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