{"product_id":"botany-sexuality-and-womens-writing-sam-george-9780719088452","title":"Botany, Sexuality and Women's Writing, 1760-1830: From Modest Shoot to Forward Plant","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePreviously 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 relation to botany and charts the appearance of a new literary stereotype, the sexually precocious female botanist. She uncovers an anonymous poem on Linnaean botany, handwritten in the eighteenth century, and subsequently traces the development of a new genre of women's writing - the botanical poem with scientific notes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book is indispensable reading for all scholars of the eighteenth century, especially those interested in Romantic women's writing, or the relationship between literature and science.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sam George\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0719088453\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780719088452\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.57d","brand":"Sam George","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947013177599,"sku":"9780719088452","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_13461685-e4d9-4e2f-b3f5-0f8113c23648.jpg?v=1681516191","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/botany-sexuality-and-womens-writing-sam-george-9780719088452","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}