{"title":"História Imperial","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"novel-cultivations","title":"Novel Cultivations","description":"\u003cp\u003eNineteenth-century English nature was a place of experimentation, exoticism, and transgression, as site and emblem of the global exchanges of the British Empire. Popular attitudes toward the transplantation of exotic species--botanical and human--to Victorian greenhouses and cities found anxious expression in a number of fanciful genre texts, including mysteries, science fiction, and horror stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSituated in a mid-Victorian moment of frenetic plant collecting from the far reaches of the British empire, \u003cem\u003eNovel Cultivations\u003c\/em\u003e recognizes plants as vital and sentient subjects that serve--often more so than people--as actors and narrative engines in the nineteenth-century novel. Conceptions of native and natural were decoupled by the revelation that nature was globally sourced, a disruption displayed in the plots of gardens as in those of novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Chang examines here the agency asserted by plants with shrewd readings of a range of fictional works, from monstrous rhododendrons in Daphne du Maurier's \u003cem\u003eRebecca\u003c\/em\u003e and Mexican prickly pears in Olive Schreiner's \u003cem\u003eStory of an African Farm, \u003c\/em\u003e to Algernon Blackwood's hair-raising \u003cem\u003e\"The Man Whom the Trees Loved\"\u003c\/em\u003e and other obscure ecogothic tales. This provocative contribution to ecocriticism shows plants as buttonholes between fiction and reality, registering changes of form and content in both realms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Virginia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52641349042543,"sku":"9780813942483","price":253.28,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0813942489.jpg?v=1770414251"}],"url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/collections\/historia-imperial.oembed","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}