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Botanical poetics : early modern plant books and the husbandry of print /
During the middle years of Queen Elizabeth's reign, the number of books published with titles that described themselves as flowers, gardens, or forests more than tripled. During those same years, English printers turned out scores of instructional manuals on gardening and husbandry, retailing u...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2023]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Bound flowers, loose leaves: the form and force of plants in print
- "What kind of thing I am": plant books in space and time
- On "vertue": textual force and vegetable capacity
- Branch: the traffic in small things in Romeo and Juliet
- Part II. Scattered, sown, slipped: printed gardens in the 1570s
- Sundry flowers by sundry gentlemen
- Isabella Whitney's Dispersals
- Branch: how to read like a pig
- Part III. An increase of small things
- Richard Tottel, Thomas Tusser, and the minutiae of Shakespeare's Sonnets
- Epilogue: Heaps of experiment.