Novel Cultivations: Plants in British Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century
(Part of the Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813942489
ISBN13:9780813942483
Release Date:March 2019
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.79 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Grade Range:Postsecondary
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