Thursday, March 9, 2023 3pm to 4pm
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How does a book develop out of the intersection of very different subjects of study– horticultural architecture and practice; women’s history; art and literature– all in the Victorian age? The garden conservatory and the lady enclosed within it proves to be ambivalent, enigmatic and self-contradictory. What began optimistically as protection ended as imprisonment. The metaphor of the hothouse flower offers a vision of fractured femininity, juxtaposing the vegetable against the human in a dialogue of disjunction and paradox.
Presenter: Margaret Darby, Margaret’s Ph.D. in nineteenth century British literature got her started on this book, but teaching in Colgate’s general education program as well as in the Writing and Rhetoric Dept. sent her on the journey that culminated decades later in 2020. She has published articles on metaphors of femininity in the novels of Charles Dickens as well as historical accounts of glasshouse horticulture.
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