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Monsters under Glass: A Cultural History of Hothouse Flowers from 1850 to the Present free ebook download

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Author(s):	Jane Desmarais

Date:	2024	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1780239750
Pages:	256	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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Monsters under Glass explores our enduring fascination with hothouses and exotic blooms, from their rise in ancient times, through the Victorian vogue for plant collecting, to the vegetable monsters of twentieth-century science fiction and the movies, comics, and video games of the present day. Our interest in hothouses can be traced back to the Roman emperor Tiberius, but it was only in the early nineteenth century that a boom in exotic plant collecting and new glasshouse technologies stimulated the imagination of novelists, poets, and artists, and the hothouse entered the creative language in a highly charged way. Decadent writers in England and Europeincluding Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wildetransformed the hothouse from a functional object to a powerful metaphor of metropolitan life, sexuality, and being replete with a dark underside of decay and death  and of consciousness itself, nurtured and dissected under glass.

In a study as wide-ranging, vivid, and beautiful as our beloved exotic blooms themselves, Jane Desmarais charts the history and influence of these humid, tropical worlds and their creations, providing a steamy window onto our recent past.
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