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X-WR-CALNAME:Book Talk –   Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books an
 d the Husbandry of Print -  Prof. Jessica Rosenberg.
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DESCRIPTION:Book Talk –   Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and
  the Husbandry of Print -  Prof. Jessica Rosenberg.\n\n \n\nDuring the mid
 dle years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign\, the number of books published wit
 h titles that described themselves as flowers\, gardens\, or forests more 
 than tripled. During those same years\, English printers turned out scores
  of instructional manuals on gardening and husbandry\, retailing useful kn
 owledge to a growing class of literate landowners and pleasure gardeners. 
 Both trends\, Jessica Rosenberg shows\, reflected a distinctive style of e
 arly modern plant-thinking\, one that understood both plants and poems as 
 composites of small pieces—slips or seeds to be recirculated by readers 
 and planters.\n\nBotanical Poetics brings together studies of ecology\, sc
 ience\, literary form\, and the material text to explore how these develop
 ments transformed early modern conceptions of nature\, poetic language\, a
 nd the printed book. Drawing on little-studied titles in horticulture and 
 popular print alongside poetry by Shakespeare\, Spenser\, and others\, Ros
 enberg reveals how early modern print used a botanical idiom to anticipate
  histories of its own reading and reception\, whether through replanting\,
  uprooting\, or fantasies of common property and proliferation. While our 
 conventional narratives of English literary culture in this period see rea
 ding as an increasingly private practice\, and literary production as more
  and more of an authorial domain\, Botanical Poetics uncovers an alternate
  tradition: of commonplaces and common ground\, of slips of herbs and poet
 ry circulated\, shared\, and multiplied.\n\n \n\nJessica Rosenberg is Asso
 ciate Professor of English at the University of Miami. She specializes in 
 early modern literature and culture\, with a particular focus on the histo
 ry of science and the history of the book. She received her PhD in Compara
 tive Literature from the University of Pennsylvania and MPhil in History a
 nd Philosophy of Science from Cambridge.
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SUMMARY:Book Talk –   Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the
  Husbandry of Print -  Prof. Jessica Rosenberg.
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 rly_modern_plant_books_and_the_husbandry_of_print_-_prof_jessica_rosenberg
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