Jessica Rosenberg, Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print

With this pithy title, Jessica Rosenberg both ushers in and illustrates the theme of her masterful and delightful book, which centres on the power of small forms, both botanical and poetic, to contain, distil, distribute and condition a wealth of experience and wisdom. Working from the fertile – al...

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Autor principal: Guéron, Claire
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: Interfaces 2025
Accés en línia:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumari:With this pithy title, Jessica Rosenberg both ushers in and illustrates the theme of her masterful and delightful book, which centres on the power of small forms, both botanical and poetic, to contain, distil, distribute and condition a wealth of experience and wisdom. Working from the fertile – albeit critically neglected – ground soil of horticultural treatises published in England in the 1560s and 70s, Rosenberg discusses the seminal role of “early modern plant-thinking” (8) in the develo...