Bloom
Subtitle: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: July 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780195339093
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: Examples are rife, in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novel, of girls "blooming" or "in bloom"-from Frances Burney's Evelina, whose blooming complexion attracts libertines and suitors alike, to John Cleland's Fanny Hill, whose bloom is explicitly tied to sexual initiation, to Jane Austen's Fanny Price, whose bloom corresponds with her belated debut.