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Author : J. J. Grandville,Nehemiah Cleaveland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Botany
ISBN : HARVARD:HXKL2J
Author : Stephen Buchmann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781476755540
“Fascinating...Buchmann’s knowledge and enthusiasm jump off the page.” —The Wall Street Journal “An extraordinarily good book.” —Edward O. Wilson The lively and definitive story of the beauty, sexuality, lore, economics, and ecology of the world ’s flowers, written by a devoted scientist and illustrated with his stunning photographs. Flowers—and the fruits they often become—feed, clothe, and inspire us. Indeed, they have done so for all of human history. Yet although we use flowers to celebrate important occasions, to express love, and to please our senses, we know little about them, their functions in nature, or even how we depend on them. In a volume that will delight gardeners, naturalists, cooks, artists, or anyone interested in history or culture, pollination ecologist Stephen Buchmann serves as an expert guide through the fascinating world of flowers. He explains how other species relate to flowers in ways crucial to the natural world. Next he takes us on an engaging exploration of the roles flowers play in the production of food, spices, medicines, and perfumes. Flowering plants, Buchmann then shows, have long served as inspirational themes in art and literature. Flowers have in fact so thoroughly seduced us that we now buy some ten million a day, driving breeders to create infinite varieties and unusual blooms. In this cultural and natural investigation of floral history, Stephen Buchmann’s masterful narrative illuminates just why there is, indeed, a reason for flowers.
Author : J. J. Grandville
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781447491965
Ce beau livre extraordinaire et curieux est paru à l’origine en 1847. Dans chaque chapitre, des planches de fleurs personnifiées sont accompagnées d’un conte qui est basé sur la mythologie et folklore de la fleur en question. Une collection tout à fait charmante que l’enfant tout comme l’adulte appréciera énormément. Grande partie des premiers livres, en particulier ceux qui datent d’avant 1920, sont aujourd’hui très rares et de plus en plus chers. Nous offrons des rééditions modernes de haute qualité et à prix abordables qui contiennent le texte et l’art originaux de ces ouvrages classiques.
Author : Karen Azoulay
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780593234686
Uncover the secret meanings behind your bouquets and floral arrangements with this stunningly illustrated exploration of the Victorian language of flowers, including the multicultural history, rituals, and mythology behind over 600 flowers, herbs, and trees. In the Victorian language of flowers, hundreds of blooms were ascribed specific meanings based on folklore, science, and ancient history. Page through this botanical encyclopedia to learn each flower's Victorian meaning (ranunculus, for example, boldly states, "I am dazzled by your charms," while marigold represents despair), common names, and cultural history. There is also an index of the flowers grouped by theme, should you want to challenge your local florist to create a coded message for a loved one. The study of floriography can be used by readers to decode hidden messages in beloved novels like The Age of Innocence or speculate as to why two canary-yellow roses—which signify jealousy and infidelity—were featured in Diana Spencer's wedding bouquet. You might share some honeysuckle (meaning "bonds of love") with a friend or partner as a gesture of commitment. Or perhaps you'll choose a celebratory bouquet of angelica ("inspiration") and purple columbine ("resolved to win") for a friend who has triumphed over something difficult. Karen Azoulay pairs nineteenth century botanical drawings with electric photography, creating a one-of-a-kind flower dictionary with a contemporary, artful feel. With a foreword by Kate Bolick and a helpful sentiment-based index, Flowers and Their Meanings is both a beautiful volume and a practical guide to incorporating the language of flowers into your own life.
Author : Patricia Cox Crews
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0803215134
Features nineteenth-century floral applique quilts, a description of each quilt's historical and botanical influences, and an explanation of women's interest in botany and flower garden designs as reflected in their quilts.
Author : Dorri Beam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139489232
In this 2010 book, Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of authors, including Margaret Fuller and Pauline Hopkins, Beam traces this style through a variety of literary endeavors and reconstructs the political rationale behind the writers' commitments to this form of prose. Beam provides both close readings of a number of familiar and unfamiliar works and an overarching account of the importance of this form of writing, suggesting new ways of looking at style as a medium through which gender can be signified and reshaped. Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth Century American Women's Writing redefines our understanding of women's relation to aesthetics and their contribution to both American literary romanticism and feminist reform. This illuminating account provides valuable new insights for scholars of American literature and women's writing.
Author : Vera Norwood
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469617442
The broad sweep of environmental and ecological history has until now been written and understood in predominantly male terms. In Made From This Earth, Vera Norwood explores the relationship of women to the natural environment through the work of writers, illustrators, landscape and garden designers, ornithologists, botanists, biologists, and conservationists. Norwood begins by showing that the study and promotion of botany was an activity deemed appropriate for women in the early 1800s. After highlighting the work of nineteenth-century scientific illustrators and garden designers, she focuses on nature's advocates such as Rachel Carson and Dian Fossey who differed strongly with men on both women's "nature" and the value of the natural world. These women challenged the dominant, male-controlled ideologies, often framing their critique with reference to values arising from the female experience. Norwood concludes with an analysis of the utopian solutions posed by ecofeminists, the most recent group of women to contest men over the meaning and value of nature.
Author : N. Cleaveland
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9785879808032
Author : Michael Bennett,Vanessa D. Dickerson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0813528399
Recovering the Black Female Body recognizes the pressing need to highlight through scholarship the vibrant energy of African American women's attempts to wrest control of the physical and symbolic construction of their bodies away from the distortions of others.
Author : Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106426208
Author : Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2950889
Author : Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1338 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Gardening
ISBN : CORNELL:31924077271785
Includes list of members.
Author : Beverly Seaton
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813934532
The author traces the phenomenon of ascribing sentimental meaning to floral imagery from its beginnings in Napoleonic France through its later transformations in England and America. At the heart of the book is a depiction of what the three most important flower books from each of the countries divulge about the period and the respective cultures. Seaton shows that the language of flowers was not a single and universally understood correlation of flowers to meanings that men and women used to communicate in matters of love and romance. The language differs from book to book, country to country. To place the language of flowers in social and literary perspective, the author examines the nineteenth-century uses of flowers in everyday life and in ceremonies and rituals and provides a brief history of floral symbolism. She also discusses the sentimental flower book, a genre especially intended for female readers. Two especially valuable features of the book are its table of correlations of flowers and their meanings from different sourcebooks and its complete bibliography of language of flower titles. This book will appeal not only to scholars in Victorian studies and women's studies but also to art historians, book collectors, museum curators, historians of horticulture, and anyone interested in nineteenth-century popular culture.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006357607
Author : J. J. Grandville,Alphonse Karr,Taxile Delord
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 184?
Category : Botany
ISBN : OCLC:30466748
