Botany, sexuality and women's writing, 1760–1830
Sam George
Manchester University Press, 2012
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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 tex
- ISBN-13
- 9780719088452
- ISBN-10
- 0719088453
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Year
- 2012
- Publication date
- 2012-10-30
- Pages
- 272
- Dimensions
- 233x159x15
- Weight
- 408