 | Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens Subjects: Horticultural literature -- England -- History -- 16th century; Horticultural literature -- England -- History -- 17th century; Gardening -- England -- History -- 16th century; Gardening -- England -- History -- 17th century; English literature -- Early m; For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a fascinating tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These books powerfully evoke the desires of gardeners: they show us gardeners who, like poets, imagine not just... Rebecca Bushnell is Professor of English and Dean of the College, University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice , Tragedies of Tyrants: Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance , and Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays , all from Cornell, and editor of A Companion to Tragedy . |
