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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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The Cottage Garland; Or, Poems on the Love of Flowers, Kindness to Animals, and the Domestic Affections
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.
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Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Author: American Art AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Book auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Bibliography of American Literature: Henry Adams to Donn Byrne
Author: Jacob BlanckPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, Brown University Library, Providence, Rhode Island
Author: Brown University. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
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Author: American Art AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Book auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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