Palace of Palms: Tropical Dreams and the Making of Kew
- Submitting institution
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Roehampton University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1635675
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Picador Pan Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781529004854
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Palace of Palms (94,000 words) is the result of a sustained research effort and is the first book to situate Kew’s Palm House within nineteenth-century scientific and colonial culture. It involved three years of archival research in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the National Archives. Drawing on some 170 primary sources including parliamentary papers, contemporary journalism, travel accounts and guide books, the book addresses Victorian palm culture from literary, aesthetic and commercial perspectives, examining the Palm House as engineering structure, botanic showpiece, fantasy landscape and public attraction. The book combines cultural geography, literary analysis and historical narrative.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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