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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154616603321

Autore

Knight Leah

Titolo

Of books and botany in early modern England : sixteenth-century plants and print culture / / Leah Knight

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-91411-1

1-138-27336-8

1-315-24779-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity

Disciplina

828/.30809364

Soggetti

English prose literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Literature and science - England - History - 16th century

Botany - History - 16th century

Early printed books - England - History - 16th century

Botany in literature

Electronic books.

England Intellectual life 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Published virtues of the Earth : an introduction -- 2. The bookish nature of botanical culture : continental contexts -- 3. Botanical reformation in William Turner's Books of nature -- 4. John Gerard's Uncommon ground -- 5. Domesticated plants and domesticating books : cultivating household textual collection.