Bloom
The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel
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2003
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-516151-9 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-516151-9 (ISBN)
Starting from the botanical craze inspired by Linnaeus in the18th 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 to George Eliot and Henry James.
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 to George 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 cultural figure, the blooming girl, that stood at the center of both fictional and scientific worlds.
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 to George 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 cultural figure, the blooming girl, that stood at the center of both fictional and scientific worlds.
Amy M. King is Assistant Professor of English at St. John's University
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.10.2003 |
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Zusatzinfo | numerous halftones and one line illustration |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 162 x 243 mm |
Gewicht | 554 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-516151-3 / 0195161513 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-516151-9 / 9780195161519 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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