Blooming Flowers

Autorentext

Kasia Boddy teaches American literature at the University of Cambridge. Her other books include Boxing: A Cultural History*,The American Short Story Since 1950, and Geranium.*

Klappentext

Ranging through the centuries and across the globe, Kasia Boddy explores the importance of flowers from their associations in perfumes and paintings to their use in social and political ritual. She moves through the seasons to consider how and why the sunflower, poppy, geranium?and many others?matter so much to us.