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The language of fruit : literature and horticulture in the long eighteenth century / Liz Bellamy.

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Examining the intersection of literary tradition and horticultural innovation, The Language of Fruit traces how writers from Andrew Marvell to Jane Austen responded to the challenges posed by the evolving social, economic, and symbolic functions of fruit over the long eighteenth century.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Bellamy, Liz (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Edition:1st edition.
Series:Penn studies in landscape architecture.
Subjects:
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Fruit in literature.
Fruit > Symbolic aspects.
Fruit-culture > England > History > 18th century.
Horticultural literature > England > History > 18th century.
English literature.
Fruit-culture.
Horticultural literature.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Discoursing with Fruit Trees
  • "I Am the True Vine": The Uses of Fruit in Biblical and Classical Tradition
  • "A Chiefe Meanes to Enrich This Common-Wealth": The Language of Fruit in Horticultural Literature
  • "Stumbling on Melons": Negotiating the Garden in Seventeenth-Century Verse
  • "You Have Only Squeezed My Orange": The Fungibility of Fruit in Restoration Drama
  • "The Native Zest and Flavour of the Fruit": Constructions of the Apple in Eighteenth-Century Georgic
  • "Unnatural Productions": Cultivating the Pineapple in the Romantic Period Novel
  • Conclusion.

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