Novel Cultivations: Plants in British Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century

by Elizabeth Hope Chang

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813942489
• ISBN13: 9780813942483
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary