LEADER 02449nam 2200385 450 001 9910793326103321 005 20220228105338.0 010 $a1-78914-045-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000007507797 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5631993 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007507797 100 $a20190130d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMonsters under glass $ea cultural history of hothouse flowers from 1850 to the present /$fJane Desmarais 210 1$aLondon, England :$cReaktion Books,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (248 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a1-78023-975-0 327 $aHeat and Light: The Rise of the Hothouse -- 'Aromatic and Tainted': The City as Hothouse -- Blooming Buttonholes and Flower Fetishes -- Florientalism and the 'Scented Ways' -- Paradises and Torture Gardens -- Flowers of Evil: The Fleur Fatale -- Mind under Glass -- Weeds. 330 $a"Monsters under Glass explores our enduring fascination with hothouses and exotic blooms, from their rise in ancient times, through the Victorian vogue for plant collecting, to the present day. Our interest in hothouses can be traced back to the Roman emperor Tiberius, but it was in the early nineteenth century that a boom in exotic plant collecting and new glasshouse technologies stimulated the imagination of novelists, poets and artists, and the hothouse entered the creative language in a highly charged way. Decadent writers in England and on the Continent - including Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde - transformed the notion of the hothouse from a functional object to a powerful metaphor; of metropolitan life, sexuality and being, replete with a dark underside of decay and death; of consciousness itself, nurtured and dissected under glass. In this beautifully illustrated, wide-ranging and vivid study, Jane Desmarais charts the history and influence of these humid, tropical worlds and their creations, providing a steamy window on our recent past." -- Provided by publisher. 606 $aGreenhouses$xHistory 615 0$aGreenhouses$xHistory. 676 $a635.9823 700 $aDesmarais$b Jane$01462998 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793326103321 996 $aMonsters under glass$93680518 997 $aUNINA