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Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England - Sixteenth-Century Plants and Print Culture (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England - Sixteenth-Century Plants and Print Culture (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
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Contemplating the textual gardens, poetic garlands, and
epigrammatic groves which dot the landscape of early modern English
print, Leah Knight exposes and analyzes the close configuration of
plants and writing in the period. She argues that the early modern
cultures and cultivation of plants and books depended on each other
in historically specific and novel ways that yielded a profusion of
linguistic, conceptual, metaphorical, and material intersections.
Examining both poetic and botanical texts, as well as the poetics
of botanical texts, this study focuses on the two outstanding
English botanical writers of the sixteenth century, William Turner
and John Gerard, to suggest the unexpected historical relationship
between literature and science in the early modern genre of the
herbal. In-depth readings of their work are situated amid chapters
that establish the broader context for the interpenetration of
plants and writing in the period's cultural practices in order to
illuminate a complex interplay between materials and discourses
rarely considered in tandem today.
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