TY - GEN T1 - Botany, sexuality and women's writing, 17601830;from modest shoot to forward plant. LA - English PP - MANCHESTER PB - MANCHESTER UNIV Press YR - 2017 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1007378934 AB - 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 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 r. CN - QK14.5 .G46 2007eb SN - 1526130173 SN - 9781526130174 SN - 9780719076978 SN - 0719076978 SN - 9780719088452 KW - Linné, Carl von, : 1707-1778 : Influence. KW - Linné, Carl von, : 1707-1778 KW - Linné, Carl von, : 1707-1778 : influenser. KW - Linné, Carl von (Biologe, : 1707-1778) KW - Botanical literature : Women authors : History : 18th century. KW - Botany in literature : History : 18th century. KW - Women botanists : History : 18th century. KW - Plants, Sex in : Early works to 1800. KW - Botanique dans la littérature : Histoire : 18e siècle. KW - Femmes botanistes : Histoire : 18e siècle. KW - Plantes : Sexualité : Ouvrages avant 1800. KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Literary. KW - Botany in literature KW - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Plants, Sex in KW - Women botanists KW - Pflanzen KW - Geschlechtliche Fortpflanzung KW - Rezeption KW - Frauenliteratur KW - Großbritannien KW - Kvinnliga botaniker : historia : 1700-talet : 1800-talet. KW - Engelsk litteratur : kvinnliga författare : historia : 1700-talet : 1800-talet. KW - Botanik i litteraturen. KW - 1700-1799 KW - Early works KW - History ER -