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- catalog abstract ""The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel offers an account of the way in which the language of "bloom," derived from scientific botany, enabled a licit, but nonetheless sexualized, representation of maturation and marriage for novelists from Jane Austen to George Eliot and Henry James. The girl in bloom - the girl at her social and sexual peak - is, as Amy M. King demonstrates, a subject described and plotted through the language of botany, a language whose ability to represent and evoke sexual fulfillment stood at its height in the nineteenth century." "By reanimating a cultural understanding of botany and sexuality that we have lost, Bloom provides an entirely new and powerful account of the novel's role in scripting sexualized courtship, and illuminates how the novel and popular science together created a cultural figure, the blooming girl, that stood at the center of both fictional and scientific worlds."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13017045.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel offers an account of the way in which the language of "bloom," derived from scientific botany, enabled a licit, but nonetheless sexualized, representation of maturation and marriage for novelists from Jane Austen to George Eliot and Henry James. The girl in bloom - the girl at her social and sexual peak - is, as Amy M. King demonstrates, a subject described and plotted through the language of botany, a language whose ability to represent and evoke sexual fulfillment stood at its height in the nineteenth century." "By reanimating a cultural understanding of botany and sexuality that we have lost, Bloom provides an entirely new and powerful account of the novel's role in scripting sexualized courtship, and illuminates how the novel and popular science together created a cultural figure, the blooming girl, that stood at the center of both fictional and scientific worlds."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-257) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: The Girl and the Water Lily -- 1. Linnaeus's Blooms: The Birth of the Botanical Vernacular -- 2. Imaginative Literature and the Politics of Botany -- 3. Austen's Physicalized Mimesis: Garden, Landscape, Marriageable Girl -- 4. Eliot's Vernaculars: Natural Objects and Revisionary Blooms -- 5. Inside and Outside the Plot: Rewriting the Bloom Script in James -- Coda: Later Bloomings: Molly's Bloom.".
- catalog extent "x, 265 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0195161513 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "823/.009/364 21".
- catalog subject "Botany in literature.".
- catalog subject "English fiction History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Flowers in literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature and science Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "PR830.B68 K56 2003".
- catalog subject "Plants in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: The Girl and the Water Lily -- 1. Linnaeus's Blooms: The Birth of the Botanical Vernacular -- 2. Imaginative Literature and the Politics of Botany -- 3. Austen's Physicalized Mimesis: Garden, Landscape, Marriageable Girl -- 4. Eliot's Vernaculars: Natural Objects and Revisionary Blooms -- 5. Inside and Outside the Plot: Rewriting the Bloom Script in James -- Coda: Later Bloomings: Molly's Bloom.".
- catalog title "Bloom : the botanical vernacular in the English novel / Amy M. King.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".