Of books and botany in early modern England
Subtitle: sixteenth-century plants and print culture
By: by Leah Knight.
Series: Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company; Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780754665861
Subjects: Turner, William. -- d. 1568; Gerard, John, -- 1545-1612; English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Literature and science -- England -- History -- 16th century; Botany -- History -- 16th century; Early printed books -- England -- History -- 16th century; England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century; Botany in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Published virtues of the earth: an introduction; title: The bookish nature of botanical culture: continental contexts. Botanical renaissance: A potted history; title: Words and things in humanist herbalism; title: Botany by the book; title: Botanical gardens in book form: the herbaria; title: Botanical reformation in William Turner's books of nature. Biographical contexts; title: Anthological botany; title: Turner's reforms: Naming and translating; title: What's in a name? Truth, falsity, and fiction; title: John Gerard's uncommon ground. The garden grows: From catalogue to herbal; title: The anthology of nature: Gerard's as editor and author; title: Botanical poetics and the rhetoric of description; title: Imaginary gardens: poets as herbalists; title: Domesticated plants and domesticating books: cultivating household textual collection; title: The place of books; title: The place of plants; title: Gallery and paradise; title: Stillroom and study; title: Posies transposed; title: Epilogue.