Research Catalog

Title

Orchid : a cultural history / Jim Endersby.

Author

Endersby, Jim

Publication

• Chicago : The University of Chicago ; Richmond, Surrey : Royal Botanic Gardens, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

viii, 292 pages, [8 unnumbered pages of colour plates] : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Orchids > History
• Orchids in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-283) and index.

Contents

Introduction: imagining orchids -- Censored origins -- The lesbian boy -- The uses of orchids -- Red book, black flower -- Utopian botany -- The signature of all things -- The name of the orchid -- Making a family -- A second Adam -- Artificial to natural -- Myths of orchids -- Orchidmania -- The blooming aristocracy -- Orchis bank -- Every trifling detail -- Beautiful contrivances -- The scramble for orchids -- Lost orchids -- Cannibal tales -- Savage orchids -- Long purples and a forked radish -- Queer flowers -- Creation and consolation -- Sexy orchids -- Boy's own orchids -- Manly orchids -- Frail orchids -- Deceptive orchids -- Orchids in orbit -- Endangered orchids -- Fragile specialists -- The spider orchids of Sussex -- Conclusion: an orchid's-eye view?

Call Number

JFD 17-3081

ISBN

• 9780226376325
• 022637632X

LCCN

2016018415

OCLC

944087675

Author

Endersby, Jim, author.

Title

Orchid : a cultural history / Jim Endersby.

Publisher

Chicago : The University of Chicago ; Richmond, Surrey : Royal Botanic Gardens, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-283) and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 17-3081