Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print Rosenberg Jessica
Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print Rosenberg Jessica During the middle years of Queen Elizabeth's reign, the number of books published with titles that described…
Specifikacia Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print Rosenberg Jessica
Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print Rosenberg Jessica
During the middle years of Queen Elizabeth's reign, the number of books published with titles that described themselves as flowers, gardens, or forests more than tripled. Both trends, Jessica Rosenberg shows, reflected a distinctive style of early modern plant-thinking, one that understood both plants and poems as composites of small pieces--slips or seeds to be recirculated by readers and planters.Botanical Poetics brings together studies of ecology, science, literary form, and the material text to explore how these developments transformed early modern conceptions of nature, poetic language, and the printed book. During those same years, English printers turned out scores of instructional manuals on gardening and husbandry, retailing useful knowledge to a growing class of literate landowners and pleasure gardeners.
Drawing on little-studied titles in horticulture and