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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    06 February 2025
    13 February 2025
    ISBN:
    9781108942690
    9781108837736
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108942690
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.72kg, 406 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, English Literature: General Interest, European Literature, European Studies
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    Literature, Area Studies, English Literature: General Interest, European Literature, European Studies
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    The first of its kind, this wide-ranging, accessible handbook covers literary engagement with plants in over two thousand years of writing from around the world. It includes within its broad ambit historical periods of Latin, Norse and Anglophone plant literatures, prominent plant genres, and the literatures of major global regions. Chapters explore the history of literary thinking about plants as creatures that do or do not resemble us; our use of plants to negotiate geo-political conflict; the ethical dimension of plant sensibilities; the moral dimension of our desire to engage aesthetically with plants; the ways in which human-plant relations have been used to make and unmake national and ethnic identities; the role of plant-writing in the development of literary form; and the ways we have used plants to navigate modernity's cultural and intellectual shift from theological engagement with the created world to the discourses of modern science.

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    ‘A well-researched and much-needed addition to the Cambridge Handbook lineup … Recommended.’

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