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Novel Cultivations - Plants in British Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Novel Cultivations - Plants in British Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
Series: Under the Sign of Nature
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Nineteenth-century English nature was a place of experimentation,
exoticism, and transgression, as site and emblem of the global
exchanges of the British Empire. Popular attitudes toward the
transplantation of exotic species-botanical and human-to Victorian
greenhouses and cities found anxious expression in a number of
fanciful genre texts, including mysteries, science fiction, and
horror stories. Situated in a mid-Victorian moment of frenetic
plant collecting from the far reaches of the British empire, Novel
Cultivations recognizes plants as vital and sentient subjects that
serve-often more so than people-as actors and narrative engines in
the nineteenth-century novel. Conceptions of native and natural
were decoupled by the revelation that nature was globally sourced,
a disruption displayed in the plots of gardens as in those of
novels. Elizabeth Chang examines here the agency asserted by plants
with shrewd readings of a range of fictional works, from monstrous
rhododendrons in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and Mexican prickly
pears in Olive Schreiner's Story of an African Farm, to Algernon
Blackwood's hair-raising ""The Man Whom the Trees Loved"" and other
obscure ecogothic tales. This provocative contribution to
ecocriticism shows plants as buttonholes between fiction and
reality, registering changes of form and content in both realms.
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