Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture

by Theresa M. Kelley

Botany in the romantic era played a role in debates about life, nature, and knowledge, as evidenced in this ambitious, beautifully illustrated study.

Winner, 2012 British Society for Literature and Science Book Prize

Romanticism was a cultural and intellectual movement characterized by discovery, revolution, and the poetic as well as by the philosophical relationship between people and nature. Botany sits at the intersection...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421405172
• ISBN13: 9781421405179
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"