Sam George

Botany, Sexuality and Women's Writing, 1760-1830

From Modest Shoot to Forward Plant

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780719088452
• ISBN-10: 0719088453
• Artikelnr.: 35888617

Autorenporträt

Sam George, PhD, serves as a Catalyst for Diasporas of the Lausanne Movement. He teaches World Christianity and Diaspora Missiology in several seminaries around the world. He holds degrees in Engineering, Management, Theology, and Missiology. He lives with his family in the suburbs of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

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