"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. Popular atti...

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1. Verfasser:	Chang, Elizabeth Hope (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Charlottesville University of Virginia Press 2019
Schriftenreihe:	Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1800-1900 Englisch Pflanzen > Motiv Literatur English literature / 19th century / History and criticism Plants in literature Nature in literature
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Zusammenfassung:	"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. Popular attitudes toward the transplantation of exotic species - both botanical and human - to Victorian greenhouses and cities found anxious expression in a number of fanciful genre texts. Conceptions of the native and the natural were decoupled by the revelation that nature was globally sourced, a disruption displayed in the plots of gardens as in those of novels. Elizabeth Chang examines the agency asserted by plants with shrewd readings of a range of fictional works, from monstrous rhododendrons in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and Mexican prickly pears in Olive Shreiner's Story of an African Farm, to Algernon Blackwood's hair-raising 'The Man Whome the Trees Loved' and other obscure ecogothic tales. This stirring contribution to ecocriticism shows plants as buttonholes between fiction and reality, registering changes of form and content in both realms"--Back cover
Beschreibung:	viii, 228 Seiten 23 cm
ISBN:	9780813942483 9780813942476