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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b7507529.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "I. Flowers in the nineteenth century -- II. The sentimental flower book and its audience -- III. Floral symbolism -- IV. The origins of the language of flowers : France -- V. Further developments : England and America -- VI. Love's truest language : readings in the language of flowers -- VII. Conclusions.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-227) and index.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xii, 234 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0813915562 (cloth)".
- catalog isPartOf "Victorian literature and culture series".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Charlottesville ; London : University Press of Virginia,".
- catalog subject "398/.368213 20".
- catalog subject "Flower language History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Flower language.".
- catalog subject "Flowers Literary collections History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Flowers Literary collections.".
- catalog subject "Flowers Symbolic aspects History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Flowers Symbolic aspects.".
- catalog subject "PN6071.F5 S43 1995".
- catalog subject "PN6071.F5 S43 1995X".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. Flowers in the nineteenth century -- II. The sentimental flower book and its audience -- III. Floral symbolism -- IV. The origins of the language of flowers : France -- V. Further developments : England and America -- VI. Love's truest language : readings in the language of flowers -- VII. Conclusions.".
- catalog title "The language of flowers : a history / Beverly Seaton.".
- catalog type "Literary collections. fast".
- catalog type "text".