Bloom
The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel
«Unusually for an academic study, Bloom combines meticulous attention to the detail of cultural history and vigorous readings of nineteenth-century fiction with the breathless excitement of someone who has stumbled upon a story never previously told.»
Alison Stenton, Times Literary Supplement
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. Les mer
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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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780195161519
- Utgivelsesår
- 2003
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
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«Unusually for an academic study, Bloom combines meticulous attention to the detail of cultural history and vigorous readings of nineteenth-century fiction with the breathless excitement of someone who has stumbled upon a story never previously told.»
Alison Stenton, Times Literary Supplement
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