Botany, Sexuality and Women''s Writing, 1760-1830 - From Modest Shoot to Forward Plant

Informationen zum Autor Bill Hughes was recently awarded his doctorate from the University of Sheffield Dr Samantha George is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Hertfordshire Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Contains full texts of rare botanical poems by eighteenth-century women. This title engages with popular and provoking debates on sexuality! as women's study of the modern sexual system of botany was perceived to threaten female modesty. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figuresAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. 'The Sweet Flowers that Smile in the Walk of Man': floral femininity and female education2. 'Unveiling the mysteries of vegetation': botany and the feminine3. Sex, class and order in Flora's army4. Forward plants and wanton women: botany and sexual anxiety in the late eighteenth century5. 'Botany in an English dress': British flora and the 'fair daughters of Albion'ConclusionAppendices: Botanical poems by womenBibliographyIndex...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Dr Samantha George, Sam George, Samantha George, GEORGE DR SAMANTHA, George Sam
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.11.2007
• EAN: 9780719076978
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7697-8
• Pagine: 272
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Botanica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Gender studies: women, Botany & plant sciences, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800, Botany and plant sciences