Monsters under Glass: A Cultural History of Hothouse Flowers from 1850 to the Present by Jane Desmarais

Monsters under Glass: A Cultural History of Hothouse Flowers from 1850 to the Present

Jane Desmarais

256 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction art dark informative slow-paced
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Monsters under Glass explores our enduring fascination with hothouses and exotic blooms, from their rise in ancient times, through the Victorian vogue for plant collecting, to the vegetable monsters of twentieth-century science fiction and the mov...

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