Botanical Poetics : : Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print / / Jessica Rosenberg.
During the middle years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, the number of books published with titles that described themselves as flowers, gardens, or forests more than tripled. During those same years, English printers turned out scores of instructional manuals on gardening and husbandry, retailing useful...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- NOTE
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I Bound Flowers, Loose Leaves: The Form and Force of Plants in Print
- CHAPTER 1 “What Kind of Thing I Am” Plant Books in Space and Time
- CHAPTER 2 On “Vertue” Textual Force and Vegetable Capacity
- BRANCH The Traffic of Small Things in Romeo and Juliet
- PART II Scattered, Sown, Slipped: Printed Gardens in the 1570s
- CHAPTER 3 Sundry Flowers by Sundry Gentlemen
- CHAPTER 4 Isabella Whitney’s Dispersals
- BRANCH How to Read Like a Pi
- PART III An Increase of Small Things
- CHAPTER 5 Richard Tottel, Thomas Tusser, and the Minutiae of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
- EPILOGUE Heaps of Experiment
- NOTES
- INDEX
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS