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  title info:
    title: Sacred seeds
    sub title: new world plants in early modern English literature
  name:
    name part: Test, Edward McLean
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nbu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: More than five hundred years after the fact, present-day writers still use hyperbolic adjectives to describe the "discovery" of the Americas. Columbus's crossing of the Atlantic, and the age of exploration that ensued, dramatically and forever changed the early modern world. The societies, economies, cultures, arts and burgeoning sciences of Europe were quickly transformed by the ongoing encounter with the New World. The meeting of the New and the Old Worlds, however, was more than a meeting of disparate civilizations. It was also a confluence of exciting and often surprising associations that continually created new interfaces between materials and knowledge. The Western and Eastern Hemispheres, brought together by sailing ships for the first time on a large scale, helped create the global landscape we take for granted today. Central to this formative moment in global history were New World plants. The agriculture of indigenous peoples mythically and materially shaped English society and, subsequently, its literature in new and startling ways. Sacred Seeds examines New World plants, tobacco, amaranth, guaiacum and the prickly pear cactus, and their associated Native myths as they moved across the Atlantic and into English literature. Edward McLean Test reinstates the contributions of indigenous peoples to European society, charting an alternative cultural history that explores the associations and assemblages of transatlantic multiplicity rather than Eurocentric homogeny.
  table of contents: New seeds, strange countries: herbals -- People of the figs: travel writing -- King tobacco: a study in genre -- The holy wood of America: Guaiac and The Faerie Queene -- Love lies bleeding: Amaranth and The Faerie Queene.
  note: Edward McLean Test.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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    geographic code: s------
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  subject:
    topic: English literature
    temporal: Early modern, 1500-1700
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Gardens in literature
  subject:
    topic: Plants in literature
  subject:
    geographic: America
    topic: In literature
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous peoples
    geographic: America
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    topic: Nature
    topic: Religious aspects
  subject:
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Civilization
    topic: American influences
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  classification: PR428.G37 T47 2019
  classification: 820.9/364
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Early modern cultural studies (Lincoln, Neb.)
  identifier: 9781496207883
  identifier: 1496207882
  identifier: 9781496212894
  identifier: 9781496212900
  identifier: 9781496212917
  identifier: 2018023683
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180628
    record change date: 20200117105442.0
    record identifier: in00004092306