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The Language of Flowers - A History (Hardcover)
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The Language of Flowers - A History (Hardcover)
Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series
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The author traces the phenomenon of ascribing sentimental meaning
to floral imagery from its beginnings in Napoleonic France through
its later transformations in England and America. At the heart of
the book is a depiction of what the three most important flower
books from each of the countries divulge about the period and the
respective cultures. Seaton shows that the language of flowers was
not a single and universally understood correlation of flowers to
meanings that men and women used to communicate in matters of love
and romance. The language differs from book to book, country to
country. To place the language of flowers in social and literary
perspective, the author examines the nineteenth-century uses of
flowers in everyday life and in ceremonies and rituals and provides
a brief history of floral symbolism. She also discusses the
sentimental flower book, a genre especially intended for female
readers. Two especially valuable features of the book are its table
of correlations of flowers and their meanings from different
sourcebooks and its complete bibliography of language of flower
titles. This book will appeal not only to scholars in Victorian
studies and women's studies but also to art historians, book
collectors, museum curators, historians of horticulture, and anyone
interested in nineteenth-century popular culture.
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