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Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel
Bloom The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel
Author: Amy King
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 cultu...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195339093
ISBN-10: 0195339096
Publication Date: 6/25/2007
Pages: 276
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
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