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

by Sam George and Sam George

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719088453
• ISBN13: 9780719088452
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"