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Author:

Knight, Leah

Title:

Of books and botany in early modern England : sixteenth-century plants and print culture / Leah Knight.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xvi, 163 p. ; ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

English prose literature /--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Literature and science--England--History--16th century.
Botany--History--16th century.
Early printed books--England--History--16th century.
England--Intellectual life--16th century
Turner, William,---1568.
Gerard, John,--1545-1612.
Botany in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-152) and index.

Contents:

Published virtues of the Earth : an introduction -- The bookish nature of botanical culture: continental contexts -- Botanical renaissance : a potted history -- Words and things in humanist herbalism -- Botany by the book -- Botanical gardens in book form : the herbaria -- Botanical reformation in William Turner's books of nature -- Biographical contexts -- Anthological botany -- Turner's reforms : naming and translating -- What's in a name? : truth, falsity, and fiction -- John Gerard's uncommon ground -- The garden grows : from catalogue to herbal -- The anthology of nature : Gerard's herbal authorship -- Botanical poetics and the rhetoric of description -- Imaginary gardens : poets as herbalists -- Domesticated plants and domesticating books : cultivating household textual collection -- The place of books -- The place of plants -- Gallery and paradise -- Stillroom and study -- Posies transposed -- Epilogue.

Series:

Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity

ISBN:

0754665860 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780754665861 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)234175948

LCCN:

2008029298

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)