Bloom [[electronic resource] ] : the botanical vernacular in the English novel / / Amy M. King
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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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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823/.009/364 |
| Soggetto topico: | English fiction - History and criticism |
| Botany in literature | |
| Literature and science - Great Britain | |
| Flowers in literature | |
| Plants in literature | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-257) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 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 | |
| Bloom'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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Starting 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Bloom |
| ISBN: | 0-19-533909-6 |
| 9786610532704 | |
| 1-280-53270-X | |
| 1-60256-991-6 | |
| 0-19-803656-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910465643903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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