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work_2o3mai4gcfdhbbfa7uqrh6cezm	Mary Kuhn	Dickinson and the Politics of Plant Sensibility	2018.0	31	.pdf	application/pdf	11961	807	60	Dickinson and the Politics of Plant Sensibility Dickinson and the Politics of Plant Sensibility to read against Dickinson's poems and the history of plant practices up this issue of plant mobility, considering the ways that Dickinson's A number of Dickinson's poems explore the possibility of an active, feeling natural world. Yet Dickinson's own poems encourage us to consider plant and foreign historical context of local flowers, Dickinson sustains a relationship among local aesthetics, local materialism, and contestation over If Dickinson's understanding of plant life challenges us to consider As a number of scholars have noted, students of botany in midnineteenth-century America were also immersed in figurative associations between flowers and human society that likewise made plants informed Dickinson's own engagement with plant life. Dickinson's own imaginative engagement with plant life. sensible plants and feeling environment present a natural order that 2 See Judith Farr, The Gardens of Emily Dickinson (Cambridge: Harvard Univ.	./cache/work_2o3mai4gcfdhbbfa7uqrh6cezm.pdf	./txt/work_2o3mai4gcfdhbbfa7uqrh6cezm.txt