LEADER 03973nam 2200817 a 450 001 9910465643903321 005 20211005064000.0 010 $a0-19-533909-6 010 $a9786610532704 010 $a1-280-53270-X 010 $a1-60256-991-6 010 $a0-19-803656-6 035 $a(CKB)2560000000295612 035 $a(EBL)3051864 035 $a(OCoLC)922952488 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000085620 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11116226 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000085620 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10025060 035 $a(PQKB)10354012 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001142870 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12448495 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001142870 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11109848 035 $a(PQKB)10472969 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000073939 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3051864 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3051864 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10085274 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL53270 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC279731 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL279731 035 $a(OCoLC)733089072 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000295612 100 $a20021028d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBloom$b[electronic resource] $ethe botanical vernacular in the English novel /$fAmy M. King 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (276 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-516151-3 311 $a0-19-978783-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 227-257) and index. 327 $aCONTENTS; 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 327 $aLovers 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 Lady 327 $aBloom'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; Z 330 8 $aStarting 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. 606 $aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBotany in literature 606 $aLiterature and science$zGreat Britain 606 $aFlowers in literature 606 $aPlants in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBotany in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and science 615 0$aFlowers in literature. 615 0$aPlants in literature. 676 $a823/.009/364 700 $aKing$b Amy M$0628684 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465643903321 996 $aBloom$91227275 997 $aUNINA