03973nam 2200817 a 450 991046564390332120211005064000.00-19-533909-697866105327041-280-53270-X1-60256-991-60-19-803656-6(CKB)2560000000295612(EBL)3051864(OCoLC)922952488(SSID)ssj0000085620(PQKBManifestationID)11116226(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000085620(PQKBWorkID)10025060(PQKB)10354012(SSID)ssj0001142870(PQKBManifestationID)12448495(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001142870(PQKBWorkID)11109848(PQKB)10472969(StDuBDS)EDZ0000073939(MiAaPQ)EBC3051864(Au-PeEL)EBL3051864(CaPaEBR)ebr10085274(CaONFJC)MIL53270(MiAaPQ)EBC279731(Au-PeEL)EBL279731(OCoLC)733089072(EXLCZ)99256000000029561220021028d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBloom[electronic resource] the botanical vernacular in the English novel /Amy M. KingNew York Oxford University Press20031 online resource (276 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-516151-3 0-19-978783-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-257) and index.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 GirlLovers 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 Adam Bede; Organic Realism: Eliot and Natural History; FIVE: Inside and Outside the Plot: Rewriting the Bloom Script in James; The Critic and Bloom; The Girl as Topic: Watch and Ward and The Awkward Age; A Blooming Consciousness: The Portrait of a LadyBloom's Decadence: The Wings of the Dove and The Picture of Dorian GrayCODA: Later Bloomings: Molly's Bloom; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZStarting from the botanical crazes inspired by Linnaeus in the 18th century and exploring the variations it spawned, this study offers a fresh, detailed reading of the courtship novel from Jane Austen to George Eliot and Henry James.English fictionHistory and criticismBotany in literatureLiterature and scienceGreat BritainFlowers in literaturePlants in literatureElectronic books.English fictionHistory and criticism.Botany in literature.Literature and scienceFlowers in literature.Plants in literature.823/.009/364King Amy M628684MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465643903321Bloom1227275UNINA