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Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England: Sixteenth-Century Plants and Print Culture - Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity Leah Knight New edition
Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England: Sixteenth-Century Plants and Print Culture - Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
Leah Knight
Examining both poetic and botanical texts, as well as the poetics of botanical texts, this study focuses on the two English botanical writers of the sixteenth century, William Turner and John Gerard, to suggest the unexpected historical relationship between literature and science in the early modern genre of the herbal.
170 pages, includes 12 b&w illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 20, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780754665861 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 182 |
| Dimensions | 163 × 239 × 18 mm · 488 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Crane, Professor Mary Thomas |
| Series Editor | Turner, Professor Henry S. |