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literature and science Botanical Poetics
Possible Knowledge
Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print Jessica Rosenberg
The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science Debapriya Sarkar
During Queen Elizabeth’s reign, the number of books published with titles that described themselves as flowers, gardens, or forests more than tripled and English printers turned out scores of instructional manuals on gardening and husbandry. Botanical Poetics brings together studies of ecology, science, literary form, and the material text to explore how these developments transformed early modern conceptions of nature, poetic language, and the printed book. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
The Renaissance, scholars have long argued, was a period beset by the loss of philosophical certainty. In Possible Knowledge, Sarkar argues for the pivotal role of literature in the dynamic intellectual culture of this era of profound incertitude. Enacting a history of ideas that centers literary studies, Possible Knowledge suggests that what we have termed a history of science might ultimately be a history of the imagination. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
October 2022 20 b&w illus. 376pp 9781512823332 £67.00 HB now £46.90
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Radical Botany
The Environmental Unconscious
Plants and Speculative Fiction Natania Meeker & Antónia Szabari SFTS Book Prize Radical Botany uncovers a speculative tradition that conjures new languages to grasp the life of plants in all its specificity and vigor. Plants complement and challenge notions of human life. This book traces the implications of the speculative mobilization of plants within literature and art for feminism, queer studies, and posthumanist thought. FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS December 2019 304pp 9780823286621 £29.99 PB now £20.99
Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton Steven Swarbrick
Swarbrick urges literary critics and environmental scholars fluent in the new materialism to rethink notions of entanglement, animacy, and consciousness raising. Tracing the propulsive force of the environmental unconscious from the early modern period to Freudian and post-Freudian theories of desire, Swarbrick renews the psychoanalytic toolkit in light of environmental collapse. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS April 2023 5 b&w illus. 336pp 9781517913816 £23.99 PB now £16.79
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