George, Sam (Author)
This study explores the cultivation of the female mind and the feminised discourse of botanical literature in eighteenth-century Britain. Botany became an important medium for women's education and botanical works were often addressed to, and by, women. Epistolary, dialogic and poetical introductions to botany by eighteenth-century women including Priscilla Wakefield, Maria Jacson, Frances Arabella Rowden, Charlotte Smith and Sarah Hoare are examined. These unique texts are situated within the literature of the eighteenth century where they can be seen to be in dialogue with the writings of such key Enlightenment figures as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Erasmus Darwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. Chapter 1 looks at the genre of the botanical letter and sees how it mediated the key oppositions of rationalism and empiricism, and also the public and the private, through systems of classification which were invariably gendered. In chapter 2, women's problematic relationship to Enlightenment culture via analogies between women and flowers is explored. Chapter 3 investigates women's contribution to national identity through works of indigenous botany and the privileging of native flowers therein. The opposition of floristry to botany involved notions of class and nation and tensions between the universal and particular which are examined. Chapter 4 shows how botany was employed against social disorder during this period through the assimilation of botanical taxonomy to a hierarchical model of human society. Chapter 5 explores botany as a discourse on female sexuality, investigating the moral backlash against female botanists and the problems of representation facing literary women who practised the modern, sexual system of botany. The thesis covers important new ground by focusing on indigenous botany practised by women in the private sphere of the home or garden (as opposed to the public role of botany on the voyages of discovery). It traces the development of a new genre of women's writing---the botanical poem with scientific notes. A number of progressive texts are uncovered, characteristically eighteenth-century in their modernity, and assigned a place in the histories of science and women's literature.
...MoreDescription Looks at works of Priscilla Wakefield, Maria Jacson, Frances Arabella Rowden, Charlotte Smith, and Sarah Hoare. Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. C 67/02 (2006): 498. UMI pub. no. C825059.
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