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