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Autore |
King Amy M |
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Titolo |
Bloom [[electronic resource] ] : the botanical vernacular in the English novel / / Amy M. King |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-533909-6 |
9786610532704 |
1-280-53270-X |
1-60256-991-6 |
0-19-803656-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (276 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English fiction - History and criticism |
Botany in literature |
Literature and science - Great Britain |
Flowers in literature |
Plants in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-257) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: The Girl and the Water Lily; ONE: Linnaeus's Blooms: The Birth of the Botanical Vernacular; The Rise of Botanical Culture; The Mechanics of the Botanical Vernacular; Botanical Mimetics and the Novel; The Eighteenth Century: Occluded Blooms; Toward the Nineteenth Century: The Bloom Narrative; TWO: Imaginative Literature and the Politics of Botany; Botany's Gendered Controversies; Botanical Modesty: Edgeworth's Belinda; Botanical Poetry: Charlotte Smith and Erasmus Darwin; THREE: Austen's Physicalized Mimesis: Garden, Landscape,Marriageable Girl |
Lovers Walk: Burney's Evelina and Austen's Pride and PrejudiceImproving Grounds, Improving Complexions; Bloom: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion; FOUR: Eliot's Vernaculars: Natural Objects and Revisionary Blooms; Ossification: Midcentury Bloom in Dickens; Revivification: Midcentury Bloom in Middlemarch and |
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