Bloom
Subtitle: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: September 27, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780195161519
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.