Novel Cultivations: Plants in British Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century Chang Elizabeth Hope
Novel Cultivations: Plants in British Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century Chang Elizabeth Hope Shortlisted for the Best Book Prize from the British Society of Literature and…
Specifikacia Novel Cultivations: Plants in British Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century Chang Elizabeth Hope
Novel Cultivations: Plants in British Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century Chang Elizabeth Hope
Shortlisted for the Best Book Prize from the British Society of Literature and ScienceNineteenth-century English nature was a place of experimentation, exoticism, and transgression, as site and emblem of the global exchanges of the British Empire. Conceptions of native and natural were decoupled by the revelation that nature was globally 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.
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