By Theresa M. Kelley
ISBN-10: 1421405172
ISBN-13: 9781421405179
Romanticism was once a cultural and highbrow flow characterised via discovery, revolution, and the poetic in addition to via the philosophical dating among humans and nature. Botany sits on the intersection the place romantic medical and literary discourses meet. Clandestine Marriage explores the that means and strategies of the way crops have been represented and reproduced in medical, literary, inventive, and fabric cultures of the interval.
Theresa M. Kelley synthesizes romantic debates approximately taxonomy and morphology, the modern curiosity in books and magazines dedicated to plant research and pictures, and writings through such authors as Mary Wollstonecraft and Anna Letitia Barbauld. interval botanical work of flora are reproduced in bright colour, bringing her argument and the romantics' ardour for crops to life.
In addition to exploring botanic inspiration and perform within the context of British romanticism, Kelley additionally appears to be like to the German philosophical traditions of Kant, Hegel, and Goethe and to Charles Darwin’s reflections on orchids and plant pollination. Her interdisciplinary method permits a deeper figuring out of a time whilst exploration of the flora and fauna was once a culture-wide enchantment.
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