Beverly Seaton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1356257 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beverly Seaton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beverly |
| FAMILY NAME | Seaton |
| SIGNATURE | SEATON B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Towards a Historical Semiotics of Literary Flower Personification
Throughout the history of Western literature, plants of all kinds have been personified as men and women. Trees and flowers are the two most common categories of such plants. This paper concerns flowers only; trees would be another, quite different subject for semiotic analysis. Flowers have their biological role in the lives of plants (as studied by botanists), but their role in the cultures of the people who appreciate them is an interesting an…
A nineteenth-century metalanguage
Beautiful thoughts
While many people today recognize Wallace Nutting as a collector of early American furniture, author of the Furniture Treasury, and self-styled expert on interior decoration in the 17th and 18th centuries, Nutting first earned fame and fortune throug!J. the sale of his art photographs. According to his own account, perhaps 10 million of these were sold between 1900 and 19361. Nutting's customers, for the most part, were the women of America's aff…
The Garden Writing of Henry Arthur Bright
The Popular Topical Autobiography
There are many autobiographical works which are not systematically classified as life-writing but which nevertheless are part of the total picture of popular life-writing. These are books in which the appeal to the reader is not the fame of the author but rather the attraction of the topic, which usually relates to the pleasant side of life. This paper discusses the major categories of such books briefly, describes some of the strategies the auth…
The Garden Autobiography
No prominent works on this page.
The Garden Autobiography
Beautiful thoughts
While many people today recognize Wallace Nutting as a collector of early American furniture, author of the Furniture Treasury, and self-styled expert on interior decoration in the 17th and 18th centuries, Nutting first earned fame and fortune throug!J. the sale of his art photographs. According to his own account, perhaps 10 million of these were sold between 1900 and 19361. Nutting's customers, for the most part, were the women of America's aff…
The Garden Writing of Henry Arthur Bright
The Popular Topical Autobiography
There are many autobiographical works which are not systematically classified as life-writing but which nevertheless are part of the total picture of popular life-writing. These are books in which the appeal to the reader is not the fame of the author but rather the attraction of the topic, which usually relates to the pleasant side of life. This paper discusses the major categories of such books briefly, describes some of the strategies the auth…
A nineteenth-century metalanguage
Towards a Historical Semiotics of Literary Flower Personification
Throughout the history of Western literature, plants of all kinds have been personified as men and women. Trees and flowers are the two most common categories of such plants. This paper concerns flowers only; trees would be another, quite different subject for semiotic analysis. Flowers have their biological role in the lives of plants (as studied by botanists), but their role in the cultures of the people who appreciate them is an interesting an…
Art (6 works) · Art history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (2 works) · Biography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works)