The Girl and the Water Lily -- Linnaeus's Blooms: The Birth of the Botanical Vernacular -- Imaginative Literature and the Politics of Botany -- Austen's Physicalized Mimesis: Garden, Landscape, Marriageable Girl -- Eliot's Vernaculars: Natural Objects and Revisionary Blooms -- Inside and Outside the Plot: Rewriting the Bloom Script in James -- Coda: Later Bloomings: Molly's Bloom
Summary
Starting from the botanical crazes inspired by Linnaeus in the 18th century and exploring the variations it spawned, this study offers a fresh, detailed reading of the courtship novel from Jane Austen to George Eliot and Henry James
Analysis
Litteratur Engelsk, amerikansk litteratur
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-257) and index
