Research in Botanical Fiction: A Critical Bibliography
Last Updated 15 June 2017.
-Allan, Mea. Darwin and His Flowers: The Key to Natural Selection. New York: Taplinger Pub. Co., 1977.
-Ayres, P. G. The Aliveness of Plants: the Darwins at the Dawn of Plant Science. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008.
-Battles, Matthew, with photographs by Sarah W. Newman. Tree. Object Lessons. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
-Chamovitz, Daniel. What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses. New York: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, 2013.
-Chang, Elizabeth. "Killer Plants of the Late Nineteenth Century." Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in
the Victorian Age. Ed. Lara Pauline Karpenko and Shalyn Rae Claggett. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2017.
81-104.
-Chase, Mark W., et al. "Murderous Plants: Victorian Gothic, Darwin, and Modern Insights into Vegetable Carnivory."
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161 (2009): 329-56.
-Emboden, William A., Jr. Bizarre Plants: Magical, Monstrous, Mythical. New York: Macmillan, 1974.
-Endersby, Jim. "Deceived by Orchids: Sex, Science, Fiction and Darwin." BJHS 49.2 (2016): 205-229.
-Endersby, Jim. Orchid: A Cultural History. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
-Gagliano, Monica, John C. Ryan, and Patrícia Vieira, eds. The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
-Grusin, Richard. The Nonhuman Turn. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
-Hall, Matthew. Plants as Persons: A Philosophical Botany. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011.
-Hallé, Francis. In Praise of Plants. Trans. David Lee. Portland: Timber Press, 2002.
-Houle, Karen L. F. "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics as Extension or Becoming? The Case of Becoming-Plant." Journal
for Critical Animal Studies IX.1/2 (2011): 89-116.
-Irigaray, Luce, and Michael Marder. Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives. New York: Columbia
University Press, 2016.
-Karban, Richard. Plant Sensing and Communication. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
-Keetley, Dawn, and Angela Tenga. Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
-Ketterer, David. "The Genesis of the Triffids." New York Review of Science Fiction 16.7 (2004): 11-14.
-Kohn, Eduardo. How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human. Berkeley: University of California Press,
2013.
-Laist, Randy, ed. Plants and Literature: Essays in Critical Plant Studies. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013.
-Mancuso, Stefano, and Alessandra Viola. Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence. Trans.
Joan Benham. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2015.
-Manlove, C. N. "Everything Slipping Away: John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids," Journal of the Fantastic in the
Arts 4.1 (1991): 29-53.
-Marder, Michael. Grafts: Writings on Plants. Minneapolis: Univocal, 2016. [This volume sprouted chiefly from Marder's
blog series at The Los Angeles Review of Books.]
-Marder, Michael. The Philosopher's Plant: An Intellectual Herbarium. Illus. Mathilde Roussel. New York: Columbia
University Press, 2014.
-Marder, Michael. Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013
[Excellent review available at The Los Angeles Review of Books here.]
-Meeker, Natania, and Antónia Szabari. "From the Century of the Pods to the Century of the Plants: Plant Horror, Politics,
and Vegetal Ontology." Discourse 34.1 (2012): 32-58.
-Miller, Elaine P. The Vegetative Soul: From Philosophy of Nature to Subjectivity in the Feminine. Albany: State University
of New York Press, 2002.
-Miller, T. S. "'[I]n plauntes lyf is yhud': Botanical Metaphor and Botanical Science in Middle English Literature."
Forthcoming in Medieval Ecocriticisms, ed. Heide Estes [Amsterdam University Press].
-Miller, T. S. "The Lives of the Monster Plants: The Revenge of the Vegetable in the Age of Animal Studies." The Journal of
the Fantastic in the Arts (2013) 23.3: 460-479.
-Miller, T. S. "Monstrous Plants." The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters. Ed. Jeffrey Weinstock.
Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. 470-475.
-Myers, Natasha. Several works are posted to her academia.edu page here: https://yorku.academia.edu/NatashaMyers
-Nealon, Jeffrey T. Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015.
-Pharr, Mary. "Different Shops of Horrors: From Roger Corman's Cult Classic to Frank Oz's Mainstream Musical." Modes
of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Ed.
Robert A. Latham and Robert A. Collins. Westport: Greenwood, 1995. 212-29.
-Pollan, Michael. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World. New York: Random House, 2001.
-Price, Cheryl Blake. "Vegetable Monsters: Man-Eating Trees in Fin-de-siècle Fiction." Victorian Literature and Culture 41.2
(2013): 311-327.
-Price, Laurence. "Messrs Wells and Conan Doyle -- Purveyors of Horticultural Curiosities and Proto-Triffids." Wellsian 21
(1998): 35-44.
-Sandilands, Catriona. "Floral Sensations: Plant Biopolitcs." The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory. Ed.
Teena Gabrielson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 226-237.
-Sandilands, Catriona. Plantasmagoria: Plants and the Politics of Urban Habitat. In Progress.
-Sandilands, Catriona. "Vegetate." Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental Thinking. Ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and
Lowell Duckert. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
-Simoons, Frederick J. Plants of Life, Plants of Death. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.
-Smith, Jonathan. "Une Fleur du mal? Swinburne's 'The Sundew' and Darwin's Insectivorous Plants." Victorian Poetry
41.1 (2003): 131-150.
-Supper, Judith. "Botanischer Horror: Vom Woher und Wohin tödlicher Pflanzen in der phantastischen Literatur
[Botanical Horror: From Whence and Whither Deadly Plants in Fantastic Literature]." Quarber Merkur 109/110:
181-196. 2009.
-Taiz, Lincoln, and Lee Taiz. Flora Unveiled: The Discovery and Denial of Sex in Plants. New York: Oxford University Press,
2017.
-Trettien, Whitney Anne. "Plant → Animal → Book: Magnifying a Microhistory of Media Circuits." postmedieval 3.1 (2012): 97-118.
-Vieira, Patrícia; Monica Gagliano; and John Ryan, eds. The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World. Lanham:
Lexington: 2015.
-Vint, Sherryl. Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press,
2010.
-Walter, Brenda S. Gardenour. "The Fungus among Us: Zoosemiotics and Fuzzy Bodily Boundaries in Science Fiction Horror
Cinema." Trespassing Bodies 6 (2017).
Cheryl Blake Price also hosts a page containing further "Bibliographic Resources on 'Man-Eaters' in Victorian Literature" on her personal website.
-Allan, Mea. Darwin and His Flowers: The Key to Natural Selection. New York: Taplinger Pub. Co., 1977.
-Ayres, P. G. The Aliveness of Plants: the Darwins at the Dawn of Plant Science. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008.
-Battles, Matthew, with photographs by Sarah W. Newman. Tree. Object Lessons. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
-Chamovitz, Daniel. What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses. New York: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, 2013.
-Chang, Elizabeth. "Killer Plants of the Late Nineteenth Century." Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in
the Victorian Age. Ed. Lara Pauline Karpenko and Shalyn Rae Claggett. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2017.
81-104.
-Chase, Mark W., et al. "Murderous Plants: Victorian Gothic, Darwin, and Modern Insights into Vegetable Carnivory."
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161 (2009): 329-56.
-Emboden, William A., Jr. Bizarre Plants: Magical, Monstrous, Mythical. New York: Macmillan, 1974.
-Endersby, Jim. "Deceived by Orchids: Sex, Science, Fiction and Darwin." BJHS 49.2 (2016): 205-229.
-Endersby, Jim. Orchid: A Cultural History. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
-Gagliano, Monica, John C. Ryan, and Patrícia Vieira, eds. The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
-Grusin, Richard. The Nonhuman Turn. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
-Hall, Matthew. Plants as Persons: A Philosophical Botany. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011.
-Hallé, Francis. In Praise of Plants. Trans. David Lee. Portland: Timber Press, 2002.
-Houle, Karen L. F. "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics as Extension or Becoming? The Case of Becoming-Plant." Journal
for Critical Animal Studies IX.1/2 (2011): 89-116.
-Irigaray, Luce, and Michael Marder. Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives. New York: Columbia
University Press, 2016.
-Karban, Richard. Plant Sensing and Communication. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
-Keetley, Dawn, and Angela Tenga. Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
-Ketterer, David. "The Genesis of the Triffids." New York Review of Science Fiction 16.7 (2004): 11-14.
-Kohn, Eduardo. How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human. Berkeley: University of California Press,
2013.
-Laist, Randy, ed. Plants and Literature: Essays in Critical Plant Studies. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013.
-Mancuso, Stefano, and Alessandra Viola. Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence. Trans.
Joan Benham. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2015.
-Manlove, C. N. "Everything Slipping Away: John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids," Journal of the Fantastic in the
Arts 4.1 (1991): 29-53.
-Marder, Michael. Grafts: Writings on Plants. Minneapolis: Univocal, 2016. [This volume sprouted chiefly from Marder's
blog series at The Los Angeles Review of Books.]
-Marder, Michael. The Philosopher's Plant: An Intellectual Herbarium. Illus. Mathilde Roussel. New York: Columbia
University Press, 2014.
-Marder, Michael. Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013
[Excellent review available at The Los Angeles Review of Books here.]
-Meeker, Natania, and Antónia Szabari. "From the Century of the Pods to the Century of the Plants: Plant Horror, Politics,
and Vegetal Ontology." Discourse 34.1 (2012): 32-58.
-Miller, Elaine P. The Vegetative Soul: From Philosophy of Nature to Subjectivity in the Feminine. Albany: State University
of New York Press, 2002.
-Miller, T. S. "'[I]n plauntes lyf is yhud': Botanical Metaphor and Botanical Science in Middle English Literature."
Forthcoming in Medieval Ecocriticisms, ed. Heide Estes [Amsterdam University Press].
-Miller, T. S. "The Lives of the Monster Plants: The Revenge of the Vegetable in the Age of Animal Studies." The Journal of
the Fantastic in the Arts (2013) 23.3: 460-479.
-Miller, T. S. "Monstrous Plants." The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters. Ed. Jeffrey Weinstock.
Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. 470-475.
-Myers, Natasha. Several works are posted to her academia.edu page here: https://yorku.academia.edu/NatashaMyers
-Nealon, Jeffrey T. Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015.
-Pharr, Mary. "Different Shops of Horrors: From Roger Corman's Cult Classic to Frank Oz's Mainstream Musical." Modes
of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Ed.
Robert A. Latham and Robert A. Collins. Westport: Greenwood, 1995. 212-29.
-Pollan, Michael. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World. New York: Random House, 2001.
-Price, Cheryl Blake. "Vegetable Monsters: Man-Eating Trees in Fin-de-siècle Fiction." Victorian Literature and Culture 41.2
(2013): 311-327.
-Price, Laurence. "Messrs Wells and Conan Doyle -- Purveyors of Horticultural Curiosities and Proto-Triffids." Wellsian 21
(1998): 35-44.
-Sandilands, Catriona. "Floral Sensations: Plant Biopolitcs." The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory. Ed.
Teena Gabrielson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 226-237.
-Sandilands, Catriona. Plantasmagoria: Plants and the Politics of Urban Habitat. In Progress.
-Sandilands, Catriona. "Vegetate." Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental Thinking. Ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and
Lowell Duckert. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
-Simoons, Frederick J. Plants of Life, Plants of Death. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.
-Smith, Jonathan. "Une Fleur du mal? Swinburne's 'The Sundew' and Darwin's Insectivorous Plants." Victorian Poetry
41.1 (2003): 131-150.
-Supper, Judith. "Botanischer Horror: Vom Woher und Wohin tödlicher Pflanzen in der phantastischen Literatur
[Botanical Horror: From Whence and Whither Deadly Plants in Fantastic Literature]." Quarber Merkur 109/110:
181-196. 2009.
-Taiz, Lincoln, and Lee Taiz. Flora Unveiled: The Discovery and Denial of Sex in Plants. New York: Oxford University Press,
2017.
-Trettien, Whitney Anne. "Plant → Animal → Book: Magnifying a Microhistory of Media Circuits." postmedieval 3.1 (2012): 97-118.
-Vieira, Patrícia; Monica Gagliano; and John Ryan, eds. The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World. Lanham:
Lexington: 2015.
-Vint, Sherryl. Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press,
2010.
-Walter, Brenda S. Gardenour. "The Fungus among Us: Zoosemiotics and Fuzzy Bodily Boundaries in Science Fiction Horror
Cinema." Trespassing Bodies 6 (2017).
Cheryl Blake Price also hosts a page containing further "Bibliographic Resources on 'Man-Eaters' in Victorian Literature" on her personal website.