Women, Poetry, and American Botanical Culture
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Description
This book examines the ways in which Victorian flora and garden culture and the amateur botany movement influenced and circumscribed American feminine poetics from the late Transcendental period to the early Modern period. Delineating an ecofeminist tradition, as well as a variety of other theoretical sources, including human and feminist geography, the author interrogates the ways in which women, plants, botanical study, and feminine poetics were “othered” and delegitimized during the nineteenth century and beyond.
Table of Contents
Introduction: “Women in the Fields”: Polyvocality and Nineteenth-Century Botanical Culture
Chapter 1: “'Lethe' in my flower”: Botanical Culture and the Poems and Poetic and Religious Philosophy of Emily Dickinson
Chapter 2: “Moss had reached our lips”: Botanical Regeneration as Poetic Philosophy and Spiritualism in the Poetics of Emily Dickinson
Chapter 3: “The sorrel runs in ragged flame” : Edna St. Vincent Millay and American Botanical Culture
Chapter 4: “through leaf-mould and earth”: Cryptograms, Boundary Layers, and H.D.'s Sea Garden
Afterword
Product details
| Published | Nov 12 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9798216378457 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Critical Plant Studies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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