Bellamy Liz The Language of Fruit: Literature and Horticulture in the Long Eighteenth Century 9780812250831

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Автор: Bellamy Liz
Название: The Language of Fruit: Literature and Horticulture in the Long Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9780812250831
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Литературоведение: с 1500 до 1800 г.

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ISBN-10: 0812250834
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 256
Вес: 0.57 кг.
Дата издания: 15.03.2019
Серия: Penn studies in landscape architecture
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 25 illus.
Размер: 236 x 158 x 25
Ключевые слова: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape,LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Подзаголовок: Literature and horticulture in the long eighteenth century
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: [A] fascinating work of ecocriticism, illustrating how fruit has been meaningful in the English imaginary over time. In richly detailed prose Bellamy provides insights both diachronic and synchronic, tying together the ways that fruit husbandry in general, and particular fruits such as pears, oranges, pineapples, and melons—as represented in works of literature—convey information about the contemporary society of the authors.— Choice 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 texts and genres, she nevertheless grounds her analysis in the consideration of what actually happened in the gardens and orchards of the past. As Bellamy progresses through sections devoted to specific literary genres, three central characters come to the fore: the apple, long a symbol of natural abundance, simplicity, and English integrity; the orange, associated with trade and exchange until its naturalization as a British resident; and the pineapple, often figured as a cossetted and exotic child of indulgence epitomizing extravagant luxury. She demonstrates how the portrayal of fruits within literary texts was complicated by symbolic associations derived from biblical and classical traditions, often identifying fruit with female temptation and sexual desire. Looking at seventeenth-century poetry, Restoration drama, eighteenth-century georgic, and the Romantic novel, as well as practical writings on fruit production and husbandry, Bellamy shows the ways in which the meanings and inflections that accumulated around different kinds of fruit related to contemporary concepts of gender, class, and race. Examining the intersection of literary tradition and horticultural innovation, The Language of Fruit traces how writers from Andrew Marvell to Jane Austen responded to the challenges posed by the evolving social, economic, and symbolic functions of fruit over the long eighteenth century.

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