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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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The Language of Flowers: Being a Lexicon of the Sentiments Assigned to Flowers, Plants, Fruits and Roots
Author: The Language of Flowers: Being a Lexicon of the Sentiments Assigned to Flowers, Plants, Fruits and Roots
Author: The Language of Flowers
Author: John ReidPublisher:
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Category : Flower language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Lucas Cranach
Author: The Language of Flowers
Author: Beverly SeatonPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813934532
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The author traces the phenomenon of ascribing sentimental meaning to floral imagery from its beginnings in Napoleonic France through its later transformations in England and America. At the heart of the book is a depiction of what the three most important flower books from each of the countries divulge about the period and the respective cultures. Seaton shows that the language of flowers was not a single and universally understood correlation of flowers to meanings that men and women used to communicate in matters of love and romance. The language differs from book to book, country to country. To place the language of flowers in social and literary perspective, the author examines the nineteenth-century uses of flowers in everyday life and in ceremonies and rituals and provides a brief history of floral symbolism. She also discusses the sentimental flower book, a genre especially intended for female readers. Two especially valuable features of the book are its table of correlations of flowers and their meanings from different sourcebooks and its complete bibliography of language of flower titles. This book will appeal not only to scholars in Victorian studies and women's studies but also to art historians, book collectors, museum curators, historians of horticulture, and anyone interested in nineteenth-century popular culture.
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: A Dictionary of Flowers and Gems
Author: Skye KingsburyPublisher: Bill Peschel (pub-9236556122599907)
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A Dictionary of Flowers and Gems (Say What You Mean—Even Say It Mean—the Victorian Way)
Song of Songs
Author: J. Cheryl ExumPublisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 1611643600
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This original commentary foregrounds at every turn the poetic genius of the Song of Songs, one of the most elusive texts of the Hebrew Bible. J. Cheryl Exum locates that genius in the way the Song not only tells but shows its readers that love is strong as death, thereby immortalizing love, as well as in the way the poet explores the nature of love by a mature sensitivity to how being in love is different for the woman and the man. Many long-standing conundrums in the interpretation of the book are offered persuasive solutions in Exum's verse by verse exegesis. The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing.
Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: The Literary World
Author: Evert Augustus DuykinckPublisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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