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Oxford University Press Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel

Name: Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel
Brand: Oxford University Press

Literary Theory & Movements

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Starting from the botanical crazes inspired by Linnaeus in the eighteenth century, and exploring the variations it spawned - natural history, landscape architecture, polemical battles over botany's prurience - this study offers a fresh, detailed reading of the courtship novel from Jane Austen to George Eliot and Henry James. By reanimating a cultural understanding of botany and sexuality that we have lost, it provides an entirely new and powerful account of the novel's role in scripting sexualized courtship, and illuminates how the novel and popular science together created a cultural figure, the blooming girl, that stood at the center of both fictional and scientific worlds.

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botanical vernacular bloom

young girls in bloom

austen novels in sexual bloom

new look at romantic novels 19th century

ass. professor of literature Amy M KIng

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Brand: Oxford University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0195161513
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 09 October 2003
Listed Since: 22 January 2007

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