The Cambridge Handbook of Literature and Plants

Herausgeber: Lander Johnson, Bonnie

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This wide-ranging, accessible handbook reveals the vital role plants have played in literature for two thousand years around the world. Its sections cover historical periods of plant literature, specific global regions and diverse literary forms"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 736g
• ISBN-13: 9781108837736
• ISBN-10: 1108837735
• Artikelnr.: 72212201

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Historical Periods: 1. The ancient world: us and them Rebecca
Armstrong; 2. Inspective fruits: plants in early Christian literature Clare
Lapraik Guest; 3. Plant lives in the literatures of medieval England
Michael Bintley; 4. Plant-lore in the botanical renaissance: grafting myth
and science Todd Borlik; 5. Literary plants, 18th - 19th century
Stephen Bending; 6. Portraits of plants, 19th - 20th century Claudia Tobin;
Part II. Anglophone Literary Forms: 7. Useful books: herbals and gardening
manuals Jessica M. Rosenberg; 8. Shakespeare's plants then and now Bonnie
Lander Johnson; 9. Metaphysical subjects and cavalier objects in 17th
century plant lyric Robert N. Watson; 10. Speculative fiction and the
contemporary novel T. S. Miller; 11. Aftermath: thinking and healing with
grass in contemporary poetry Holly Corfield Carr; Part III. Global Regions:
12. Plants in the French and Francophone literary tradition Giulia Pacini;
13. Early American plant writing Michael Ziser; 14. Plants in the
literatures of Latin America and the Caribbean Lesley Wylie; 15. Plants in
the literatures of Australia John Charles Ryan; 16. Plants in the
literatures of Southern Africa Dan Wylie; 17. Lotus: an un-still life in
the literatures of China Xiaofei Tian; 18. Plants in the literatures of
India Sourit Bhattacharya; 19. Tree-rings of Middle Eastern poetry Efe
Khayyat.