{"product_id":"clandestine-marriage-theresa-m-kelley-9781421405179","title":"Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBotany in the romantic era played a role in debates about life, nature, and knowledge, as evidenced in this ambitious, beautifully illustrated study.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner, 2012 British Society for Literature and Science Book Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRomanticism 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 where romantic scientific and literary discourses meet. \u003ci\u003eClandestine Marriage\u003c\/i\u003e explores the meaning and methods of how plants were represented and reproduced in scientific, literary, artistic, and material cultures of the period. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheresa M. Kelley synthesizes romantic debates about taxonomy and morphology, the contemporary interest in books and magazines devoted to plant study and images, and writings by such authors as Mary Wollstonecraft and Anna Letitia Barbauld. Period botanical paintings of flowers are reproduced in vibrant color, bringing her argument and the romantics' passion for plants to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to exploring botanic thought and practice in the context of British romanticism, Kelley also looks to the German philosophical traditions of Kant, Hegel, and Goethe and to Charles Darwin's reflections on orchids and plant pollination. Her interdisciplinary approach allows a deeper understanding of a time when exploration of the natural world was a culture-wide enchantment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Theresa M. Kelley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421405172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421405179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2013","brand":"Theresa M. Kelley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45933929726207,"sku":"9781421405179","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6b795efd-a306-4c62-aa3a-d791e3812f3d.jpg?v=1721789931","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/clandestine-marriage-theresa-m-kelley-9781421405179","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}