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Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel King, Amy M. (Assistant Professor of Literature, Assistant Professor of Literature, California Institute of Technology)
Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel
King, Amy M. (Assistant Professor of Literature, Assistant Professor of Literature, California Institute of Technology)
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.
276 pages, numerous halftones and one line illustration
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 9, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195161519 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 288 |
| Dimensions | 234 × 155 × 31 mm · 558 g |
| Language | English |