The Language of Fruit: Literature and Horticulture in the Long Eighteenth Century

by Liz Bellamy

In The Language of Fruit, Liz Bellamy explores how poets, playwrights, and novelists from the Restoration to the Romantic era represented fruit and fruit trees in a period that saw significant changes in cultivation techniques, the expansion of the range of available fruit varieties, and the transformation of the mechanisms for their exchange and distribution. Although her principal concern is with the representation of fruit within literary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812250834
• ISBN13: 9780812250831
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"