Human beings have always lived in a state of ecological, nutritional, and psychological dependence on plants, yet the attitudes toward plant life expressed in the imaginative literature of Western culture are ambivalent. In the nineteenth century, Emerson’s delight in “the suggestion of an occult relationship between man and vegetable” finds its dark echo in Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” in which the loveliness of the mad scientist’s ...
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Boston, MA
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MLA 2013
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Thursday, January 3, 2013 to Sunday, January 6, 2013
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
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MLA 2013
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