Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance

Vin Nardizzi

ISBN 10: 148750070X / ISBN 13: 9781487500702

Edité par University of Toronto Press, 2025

Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance | Vin Nardizzi | Buch | Einband - fest (Hardcover) | Englisch | 2025 | University of Toronto Press | EAN 9781487500702 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, 4831 GR BREDA, NIEDERLANDE, gpsr[at]mare-nostrum[dot]co[dot]uk | Anbieter: preigu. N° de réf. du vendeur 134408455

Synopsis :

John Gerard's natural history of plants, The Herball (1597), is considered a failure in the history of science. Despite this reputation, it has endured as an aesthetic resource. Its illustrations were used as needlework patterns, and strewn across its pages are extracts of classical poetry, including Ovid's Metamorphoses, that delight and instruct. It is little wonder that early modern poets, like Shakespeare and Milton, gathered inspiration from this storehouse of plants.

In Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance, Vin Nardizzi offers a reparative reading of Gerard's "failed" text, particularly its chapters on leeks, laurels, tulips, and potatoes. Through a series of experiments in speculative natural history, which require an analysis of both word and image, Nardizzi distills The Herball's logic and poetics, its distinctions and infelicities, and demonstrates the entanglements of humans and plants at the core of Shakespeare's plays. Exploring these "cross-kingdom" encounters, Nardizzi contributes to the burgeoning field of queer ecologies by treating plant natural history as a serious intellectual resource for writing a counter-history of embodiment at the turn of the seventeenth century. All we need do, Nardizzi proposes, is smell the flowers.

À propos de l?auteur: Vin Nardizzi is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia.

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Titre : Marvellous Vegetables in the English ...
Éditeur : University of Toronto Press
Date d'édition : 2025
Reliure : Buch
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