04489nam 2200865 450 991081543300332120200121172140.01-5261-3017-310.7765/9781526130174(CKB)3810000000290491(OCoLC)1085603934(MdBmJHUP)muse72918(Au-PeEL)EBL5405955(OCoLC)1007378934(MiAaPQ)EBC5405955(UkMaJRU)992979626816201631(DE-B1597)659341(DE-B1597)9781526130174(EXLCZ)99381000000029049120191128h20172007 uy| 0engur||#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBotany, sexuality and women's writing, 1760-1830 from modest shoot to forward plant /Sam GeorgePaperback edition.Manchester, UK :Manchester University Press,2017.©20071 online resource (ix, 261 pages) illustrations; digital file(s)0-7190-8845-3 0-7190-7697-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. 'The Sweet Flowers that Smile in the Walk of Man': floral femininity and female education -- 2. 'Unveiling the mysteries of vegetation': botany and the feminine -- 3. Sex, class and order in Flora's army -- 4. Forward plants and wanton women: botany and sexual anxiety in the late eighteenth century -- 5. 'Botany in an English dress': British flora and the 'fair daughters of Albion' -- Conclusion -- Appendices: Botanical poems by women -- Bibliography -- IndexIn this fascinating study, Samantha George explores the cultivation of the female mind and the feminised discourse of botanical literature in eighteenth-century Britain. In particular, she discusses British women's engagement with the Swedish botanist, Carl Linnaeus, and his unsettling discovery of plant sexuality. Previously ignored primary texts of an extraordinary nature are rescued from obscurity and assigned a proper place in the histories of science, eighteenth-century literature, and women's writing. The result is groundbreaking: the author explores nationality and sexuality debates in relation to botany and charts the appearance of a new literary stereotype, the sexually precocious female botanist. She uncovers an anonymous poem on Linnaean botany, handwritten in the eighteenth century, and subsequently traces the development of a new genre of women's writing - the botanical poem with scientific notes. The book is indispensable reading for all scholars of the eighteenth century, especially those interested in Romantic women's writing, or the relationship between literature and science.Botanical literatureAuthorshipHistory18th centuryBotanical literatureHistory and criticismPlants, Sex inWomen botanistsHistory18th centuryBotany in literatureHistory18th centuryLiteraturemupLiterary TheorybicsscLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh`bisachIrelandthemaBritish women's engagement.Carl Linnaeus.Collinsonia.Erasmus Darwin.Linnaean Sexual System.Linnaean classification.Mary Wollstonecraft.botanical classification.botanical literature.eighteenth-century Britain.female mind.female modesty.floristry.plant sexuality.sexual anxiety.Botanical literatureAuthorshipHistoryBotanical literatureHistory and criticism.Plants, Sex in.Women botanistsHistoryBotany in literatureHistoryLiteratureLiterary TheoryLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh`Ireland809.9355808209033George SamDr.,1687239UkMaJRUBOOK9910815433003321Botany, sexuality and women's writing, 1760-18304060577UNINA