Novel Cultivations (Record no. 70948)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780813942483
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : International Book Distributors
Distributor address : Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New delhi
Bill Number : 123276
Bill Date : 29/10/2026
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 630 CHA
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Chang, Elizabeth Hope.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Novel Cultivations
Remainder of title : Plants in British Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Elizabeth Hope Chang.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc ,London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : University of Virginia Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2019.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent viii, 228p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 2304
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc 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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Plants
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Plants in British Literature
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Cultivations
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Elizabeth Hope Chang.
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