Victorian Nightshades: How the Solanaceae Shaped the Modern World by Campbell, Elizabeth A.
Victorian Nightshades: How the Solanaceae Shaped the Modern World by Campbell, Elizabeth A.

Victorian Nightshades: How the Solanaceae Shaped the Modern World

A darkly alluring plant family and the arrival of modernity Victorian Nightshades tells the story of how...
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Author: Elizabeth A. Campbell
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Victorian Nightshades: How the Solanaceae Shaped the Modern World by Campbell, Elizabeth A.

Victorian Nightshades: How the Solanaceae Shaped the Modern World

€309,73
Victorian Nightshades: How the Solanaceae Shaped the Modern World by Campbell, Elizabeth A.

Victorian Nightshades: How the Solanaceae Shaped the Modern World

€309,73
Author: Elizabeth A. Campbell
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A darkly alluring plant family and the arrival of modernity

Victorian Nightshades tells the story of how one plant family--notorious for centuries in England because of its frequently psychoactive and poisonous properties--rose to social and economic prevalence during the nineteenth century. Beginning with bittersweet and belladonna, the Old World species associated with evil, witchcraft, and dangerous women in an era when traditional botanical beliefs not only assigned morality to plants but also gendered them, Campbell then moves to the ubiquitous potato and tobacco before concluding with four of the Solanaceae that achieved the widest national favor by the end of the century: the ornamental petunia and the edible pepper, eggplant, and tomato.

The story of the nightshades exposes the conflicts between science and popular sentiment and between knowledge and received opinion that defined the nineteenth century. Campbell compellingly details how advances in medical and botanical knowledge, evolutionary theory, and the vagaries of human desire transformed the Solanaceae from a plant family plagued by fear and hostility in the British imagination to one of cultural favor and celebration by the turn of the century--encapsulating the Victorian era's course to modernity.

Author: Elizabeth A. Campbell
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 03/25/2025
Pages: 366
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780813952536

About the Author
Elizabeth A. Campbell is Professor Emerita in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University and the author of Fortune's Wheel: Dickens and the Iconography of Women's Time.
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