Author: Francis Kingdon Ward
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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The Romance of Plant Hunting
Author: Francis Kingdon Ward
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Plant Hunting
Author: Francis Kingdon Ward
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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The Romance of Plant Hunting
Author: Francis Kingdon Ward
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Journal
Author: New York Botanical Garden
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Novel Cultivations
Author: Elizabeth Hope Chang
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813942497
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Shortlisted for the Best Book Prize from the British Society of Literature and Science Nineteenth-century English nature was a place of experimentation, exoticism, and transgression, as site and emblem of the global exchanges of the British Empire. 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. Conceptions of native and 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 here 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 Schreiner’s Story of an African Farm, to Algernon Blackwood’s hair-raising "The Man Whom the Trees Loved" and other obscure ecogothic tales. This provocative contribution to ecocriticism shows plants as buttonholes between fiction and reality, registering changes of form and content in both realms.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813942497
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Shortlisted for the Best Book Prize from the British Society of Literature and Science Nineteenth-century English nature was a place of experimentation, exoticism, and transgression, as site and emblem of the global exchanges of the British Empire. 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. Conceptions of native and 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 here 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 Schreiner’s Story of an African Farm, to Algernon Blackwood’s hair-raising "The Man Whom the Trees Loved" and other obscure ecogothic tales. This provocative contribution to ecocriticism shows plants as buttonholes between fiction and reality, registering changes of form and content in both realms.
Catalogue
Author: Dulau & Co., ltd., Booksellers, London
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Languages : en
Pages : 1084
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Languages : en
Pages : 1084
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The Bookman's Index
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Things that Happened
Author: Vereker Monteith Hamilton
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Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Life in the Himalaya
Author: Maharaj K. Pandit
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674971744
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates 50 million years ago created the Himalaya, along with massive glaciers, intensified monsoon, turbulent rivers, and an efflorescence of ecosystems. Today, the Himalaya is at risk of catastrophic loss of life. Maharaj Pandit outlines the mountain’s past in order to map a way toward a sustainable future.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674971744
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates 50 million years ago created the Himalaya, along with massive glaciers, intensified monsoon, turbulent rivers, and an efflorescence of ecosystems. Today, the Himalaya is at risk of catastrophic loss of life. Maharaj Pandit outlines the mountain’s past in order to map a way toward a sustainable future.
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 918
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 918
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