Of books and botany in early modern England : sixteenth-century plants and print culture
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Of books and botany in early modern England : sixteenth-century plants and print culture
（Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity）
Ashgate, c2009
- : hardcover
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Bibliography: p. [135]-152
Includes index
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内容説明
Contemplating the textual gardens, poetic garlands, and epigrammatic groves which dot the landscape of early modern English print, Leah Knight exposes and analyzes the close configuration of plants and writing in the period. She argues that the early modern cultures and cultivation of plants and books depended on each other in historically specific and novel ways that yielded a profusion of linguistic, conceptual, metaphorical, and material intersections. Examining both poetic and botanical texts, as well as the poetics of botanical texts, this study focuses on the two outstanding English botanical writers of the sixteenth century, William Turner and John Gerard, to suggest the unexpected historical relationship between literature and science in the early modern genre of the herbal. In-depth readings of their work are situated amid chapters that establish the broader context for the interpenetration of plants and writing in the period's cultural practices in order to illuminate a complex interplay between materials and discourses rarely considered in tandem today.
目次
- Contents: Writing on hyacinths
- a prelude
- Published virtues of the earth: an introduction
- The bookish nature of botanical culture
- continental contexts
- Botanical reformation in William Turner's books of nature
- John Gerard's uncommon ground
- Domesticated plants and domesticating books: cultivating household textual collection
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index.
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