Bloom - The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel - Hardback - 2003

Starting from the botanical craze inspired by Linnaeus in the18th century, and exploring the variations it spawned - natural history, landscape architecture, polemical battles over botany's prurience - this study offers a fresh, detailed reading of the courtship novel from Jane Austen to George Eliot and Henry James.
Year of publication: 2003
Pagination: 288 pages, numerous halftones and one line illustration
Format: Hardback