Author: Pliny Miles
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Category : Flower language
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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The Sentiments of Flowers in Rhyme; Or, The Poetry of Flowers Learned by Mnemotechnic Rules
Author: Pliny Miles
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Category : Flower language
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Category : Flower language
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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The Language of Flowers
Author: Beverly Seaton
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813934532
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The author traces the phenomenon of ascribing sentimental meaning to floral imagery from its beginnings in Napoleonic France through its later transformations in England and America. At the heart of the book is a depiction of what the three most important flower books from each of the countries divulge about the period and the respective cultures. Seaton shows that the language of flowers was not a single and universally understood correlation of flowers to meanings that men and women used to communicate in matters of love and romance. The language differs from book to book, country to country. To place the language of flowers in social and literary perspective, the author examines the nineteenth-century uses of flowers in everyday life and in ceremonies and rituals and provides a brief history of floral symbolism. She also discusses the sentimental flower book, a genre especially intended for female readers. Two especially valuable features of the book are its table of correlations of flowers and their meanings from different sourcebooks and its complete bibliography of language of flower titles. This book will appeal not only to scholars in Victorian studies and women's studies but also to art historians, book collectors, museum curators, historians of horticulture, and anyone interested in nineteenth-century popular culture.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813934532
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The author traces the phenomenon of ascribing sentimental meaning to floral imagery from its beginnings in Napoleonic France through its later transformations in England and America. At the heart of the book is a depiction of what the three most important flower books from each of the countries divulge about the period and the respective cultures. Seaton shows that the language of flowers was not a single and universally understood correlation of flowers to meanings that men and women used to communicate in matters of love and romance. The language differs from book to book, country to country. To place the language of flowers in social and literary perspective, the author examines the nineteenth-century uses of flowers in everyday life and in ceremonies and rituals and provides a brief history of floral symbolism. She also discusses the sentimental flower book, a genre especially intended for female readers. Two especially valuable features of the book are its table of correlations of flowers and their meanings from different sourcebooks and its complete bibliography of language of flower titles. This book will appeal not only to scholars in Victorian studies and women's studies but also to art historians, book collectors, museum curators, historians of horticulture, and anyone interested in nineteenth-century popular culture.
American Mnemotechny, Or Art of Memory
Author: Pliny Miles
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Category : Mnemonics
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Category : Mnemonics
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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The American Rose Annual
Author: American Rose Society
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Category : Rosaceae
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Category : Rosaceae
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Languages : en
Pages : 558
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The American Bookseller's Complete Reference Trade List, and Alphabetical Catalogue of Books in this Country
Author: Alexander Vietts Blake
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Bibliography of Memory
Author: Morris N. Young
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Category : Memory
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Category : Memory
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
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Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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