LEADER 02649nam 2200481 450 001 9910466550603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5261-3017-3 035 $a(CKB)3810000000290491 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5405955 035 $a(OCoLC)1085603934 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse72918 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5405955 035 $a(OCoLC)1007378934 035 $a(EXLCZ)993810000000290491 100 $a20180613d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBotany, sexuality and women's writing 1760 - 1830 $efrom modest shoot to forward plant /$fSam George 205 $aPaperback edition. 210 1$aManchester :$cManchester University Press,$d2007. 215 $a1 online resource (272 pags) 311 $a0-7190-8845-3 311 $a0-7190-7697-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [211]-250) and index. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aBotanical literature$xWomen authors$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aBotany in literature$xHistory$y18th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBotanical literature$xWomen authors$xHistory 615 0$aBotany in literature$xHistory 676 $a580 700 $aGeorge$b Sam$01045912 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466550603321 996 $aBotany, sexuality and women's writing 1760 - 1830$92472529 997 $aUNINA