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Bloom
Amy M. King
其他書名
The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel
出版
Oxford University Press
, 2003
主題
History / Modern / 19th Century
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Nature
Science / History
ISBN
0195161513
9780195161519
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7no8DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.