Book ID: CBB001321257

Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture (2012)

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Kelley, Theresa M. (Author)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: x + 342 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Romanticism 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. Clandestine Marriage explores the meaning and methods of how plants were represented and reproduced in scientific, literary, artistic, and material cultures of the period. Theresa 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. In 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.

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Authors & Contributors
John A. Edgington
George, Sam
Faflak, Joel
Sagal, Anna Katerina
McCausland, Elly
Harrington, Christopher
Concepts
Science and literature
Botany
Romanticism
Science and gender
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Science and art
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Enlightenment
17th century
21st century
20th century
Places
Great Britain
Germany
East Indies
Southern Africa
England
Netherlands
Institutions
Lichfield Botanical Society
British Library
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