Sacred seeds : new world plants in early modern English literature /

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 socie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Test, Edward McLean (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
Series:	Early modern cultural studies (Lincoln, Neb.)
Subjects:	English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. Gardens in literature. Plants in literature. America > In literature. Indigenous peoples > America > Influence. Nature > Religious aspects. Europe > Civilization > American influences. LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

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.