{"product_id":"novel-cultivations-elizabeth-hope-chang-9780813942483","title":"Novel Cultivations: Plants in British Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShortlisted for the Best Book Prize from the British Society of Literature and Science\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNineteenth-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSituated in a mid-Victorian moment of frenetic plant collecting from the far reaches of the British empire, \u003ci\u003eNovel Cultivations\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth 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 \u003ci\u003eRebecca\u003c\/i\u003e and Mexican prickly pears in Olive Schreiner's \u003ci\u003eStory of an African Farm, \u003c\/i\u003e to Algernon Blackwood's hair-raising \u003ci\u003e\"The Man Whom the Trees Loved\"\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Hope Chang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813942489\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813942483\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Elizabeth Hope Chang","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926420553983,"sku":"9780813942483","price":29.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a66b56b3-1273-48d3-9f76-89f0afcd3957.jpg?v=1681082990","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/novel-cultivations-elizabeth-hope-chang-9780813942483","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}