Author: John RuskinPublisher:
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Love's Meine and Proserpina
Author: John RuskinLove's Meine and Proserpina
Author: John RuskinLove's Meine and Proserpina
Author: John RuskinLove's Meinie and Proserpina
Author: Sir Edward Tyas CookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
Novel Cultivations
Author: Elizabeth Hope ChangPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813942497
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Nineteenth-century English nature was a place of experimentation, exoticism, and transgression, as site and emblem of the global exchanges of the British Empire. Popular attitudes toward the transplantation of exotic species—botanical and human—to Victorian greenhouses and cities found anxious expression in a number of fanciful genre texts, including mysteries, science fiction, and horror stories. Situated in a mid-Victorian moment of frenetic plant collecting from the far reaches of the British empire, Novel Cultivations recognizes plants as vital and sentient subjects that serve—often more so than people—as actors and narrative engines in the nineteenth-century novel. Conceptions of native and natural were decoupled by the revelation that nature was globally sourced, a disruption displayed in the plots of gardens as in those of novels. Elizabeth Chang examines here the agency asserted by plants with shrewd readings of a range of fictional works, from monstrous rhododendrons in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca and Mexican prickly pears in Olive Schreiner’s Story of an African Farm, to Algernon Blackwood’s hair-raising "The Man Whom the Trees Loved" and other obscure ecogothic tales. This provocative contribution to ecocriticism shows plants as buttonholes between fiction and reality, registering changes of form and content in both realms.
The Swiss Cross
Author: The Book Buyer
Author: The Literary Digest
Author: Literary Digest: a Repository of Contemporaneous Thought and Research as Presented in the Periodical Literature of the World
Author: Edward Jewitt WheelerPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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