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.
This wide-ranging, accessible handbook reveals the vital role plants have played in literature for two thousand years around the world. Its sections cover historical periods of plant literature, specific global regions and diverse literary forms.
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Elucidates the long history of plants in literature across global traditions, examining both literary form and cultural context.
Part I. Historical Periods:
1. The ancient world: us and them Rebecca
Armstrong;
2. Inspective fruits: plants in early Christian literature Clare
Lapraik Guest;
3. Plant lives in the literatures of medieval England Michael
Bintley;
4. Plant-lore in the botanical renaissance: grafting myth and
science Todd Borlik;
5. Literary plants, 18th 19th century Stephen Bending;
6. Portraits of plants, 19th 20th century Claudia Tobin; Part II.
Anglophone Literary Forms:
7. Useful books: herbals and gardening manuals
Jessica M. Rosenberg;
8. Shakespeare's plants then and now Bonnie Lander
Johnson;
9. Metaphysical subjects and cavalier objects in 17th century plant
lyric Robert N. Watson;
10. Speculative fiction and the contemporary novel T.
S. Miller;
11. Aftermath: thinking and healing with grass in contemporary
poetry Holly Corfield Carr; Part III. Global Regions:
12. Plants in the
French and Francophone literary tradition Giulia Pacini;
13. Early American
plant writing Michael Ziser;
14. Plants in the literatures of Latin America
and the Caribbean Lesley Wylie;
15. Plants in the literatures of Australia
John Charles Ryan;
16. Plants in the literatures of Southern Africa Dan
Wylie;
17. Lotus: an un-still life in the literatures of China Xiaofei Tian;
18. Plants in the literatures of India Sourit Bhattacharya;
19. Tree-rings of
Middle Eastern poetry Efe Khayyat.
Bonnie Lander Johnson is Fellow and Associate Professor at Downing College, University of Cambridge. Her academic books include Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Blood Matters (2018) and Botanical Culture and Popular Belief in Shakespeare's England (Cambridge University Press, 2024). She also writes fiction and non-fiction about early modernity and our changing relationship to the natural world.
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