Description Nineteenth-Century English nature was a place of experimentation, exoticism, and transgression, as site and emblem of the Global exchanges of the British Empire.
Situated in a mid-Victorian moment of frenetic plant collect.
Popular attitudes toward the transplantation of exotic species--botanical and human--to Victorian greenhouses and cities found anxious expression in a number of fanciful genre texts, including mysteries, science fiction, and horror stories.
Description Nineteenth-Century English nature was a place of experimentation, exoticism, and transgression, as site and emblem of the Global exchanges of the British Empire