Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England
Sixteenth-Century Plants and Print Culture
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, Willia…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-351-91412-3
- EAN: 9781351914123
- Produktnummer: 24386895
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 182 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'301 KB
Über den Autor
Leah Knight is Assistant Professor of English at Brock University, Canada.
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