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Botany, sexuality and women's writing, 1760-1830 : from modest shoot to forward plant / / Sam George



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Autore: George Sam, Dr. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Botany, sexuality and women's writing, 1760-1830 : from modest shoot to forward plant / / Sam George Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017
©2007
Edizione: Paperback edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 261 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)
Disciplina: 809.9355808209033
Soggetto topico: Botanical literature - Authorship - History - 18th century
Botanical literature - History and criticism
Plants, Sex in
Women botanists - History - 18th century
Botany in literature - History - 18th century
Literature
Literary Theory
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh`
Ireland
Soggetto non controllato: British 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
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Botany, sexuality and women's writing, 1760-1830  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5261-3017-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910815433003321
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