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Brilliant, provocative, and timely. A singular contribution to Victorian studies and environmental studies. --Lynn M. Voskuil, University of Houston, author of Acting Naturally: Victorian Theatricality and Authenticity Chang's original readings of plant consciousness and agency in genre fiction make Novel Cultivations an important touchstone for work in the environmental humanities. --author of H-Environment In this brilliant and original study, Elizabeth Hope Chang explores plant fictions as mediators of imperial circulation, anthropogenic agencies, and the cultivated forms of nineteenth-century nature-culture. Examining work by a wide range of authors including Wilkie Collins, Charlotte Brontë, Rudyard Kipling, and Olive Schreiner, Chang reveals the surprisingly global lives of nineteenth-century plants, and their role as models for new conceptions of novelistic character and form. This book will be eagerly read by scholars of nineteenth-century literature, plant studies, and environmental history. --Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, University of California, Davis, author of Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture The focus of Chang's Novel Cultivations on the nineteenth century helpsto foreground the importance of the Victorian period in environmental history when environ-mental literary thinking was solidly established, due to the writers'overt interest in the naturalworld, domestic and exotic plants being a prominent part of it --author of Green Letters

In this brilliant and original study, Elizabeth Hope Chang explores plant fictions as mediators of imperial circulation, anthropogenic agencies, and the cultivated forms of nineteenth-century nature-culture. Examining work by a wide range of authors including Wilkie Collins, Charlotte Bront , Rudyard Kipling, and Olive Schreiner, Chang reveals the surprisingly global lives of nineteenth-century plants, and their role as models for new conceptions of novelistic character and form. This book will be eagerly read by scholars of nineteenth-century literature, plant studies, and environmental history. --Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, University of California, Davis, author of Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture Brilliant, provocative, and timely. A singular contribution to Victorian studies and environmental studies. --Lynn M. Voskuil, University of Houston, author of Acting Naturally: Victorian Theatricality and Authenticity

Brilliant, provocative, and timely. A singular contribution to Victorian studies and environmental studies. --Lynn M. Voskuil, University of Houston, author of Acting Naturally: Victorian Theatricality and Authenticity

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Elizabeth Hope Chang is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri and the author of Britain’s Chinese Eye: Literature, Empire, and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain.

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