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Title Botany, sexuality and women's writing, 17601830;from modest shoot to forward plant
Published MANCHESTER : MANCHESTER UNIV Press, 2017

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Contents Botany, sexuality and women's writing 1760-1830: From modest shoot to forward plant; Half Title Page; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; 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
Appendix 1: Key of the Sexual SystemAppendix 2: Botanical poems by women; Bibliography; Index
Summary 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 r
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-250) and index
Notes In English
Subject Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778 -- Influence
SUBJECT Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778 fast
Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778 -- influenser. sao
Linné, Carl von (Biologe, 1707-1778) swd
Subject Botanical literature -- Women authors -- History -- 18th century
Botany in literature -- History -- 18th century
Women botanists -- History -- 18th century
Plants, Sex in -- Early works to 1800
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Botany in literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Plants, Sex in
Women botanists
Pflanzen
Geschlechtliche Fortpflanzung
Rezeption
Frauenliteratur
Kvinnliga botaniker -- historia -- 1700-talet -- 1800-talet.
Engelsk litteratur -- kvinnliga författare -- historia -- 1700-talet -- 1800-talet.
Botanik i litteraturen.
Großbritannien
Genre/Form Early works
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1526130173
9781526130174