Botany, sexuality and women's writing, 1760–1830

From modest shoot to forward plant

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Manchester University Press | e druk, 2012
ISBN13: 9780719088452
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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

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ISBN13:9780719088452
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Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:272

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        Botany, sexuality and women's writing, 1760–1830