Author: Leah Knight
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780754665861
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Leah Knight argues that the early modern cultures and cultivation of plants and books depended on each other in historically specific ways. Knight's in-depth readings of sixteenth-century herbals are incorporated in a narrative which establishes the broader context for the interpenetration of plants and writing in the period's cultural practices to illuminate a complex interplay between materials and discourses rarely considered in tandem today.
Author: Natania Meeker
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2019-12-03
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0823286657
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner, 2019 Science Fiction & Technoculture Studies Book Prize Radical Botany excavates a tradition in which plants participate in the effort to imagine new worlds and envision new futures. Modernity, the book claims, is defined by the idea of all life as vegetal. Meeker and Szabari argue that the recognition of plants’ liveliness and animation, as a result of scientific discoveries from the seventeenth century to today, has mobilized speculative creation in fiction, cinema, and art. Plants complement and challenge notions of human life. Radical Botany traces the implications of the speculative mobilization of plants for feminism, queer studies, and posthumanist thought. If, as Michael Foucault has argued, the notion of the human was born at a particular historical moment and is now nearing its end, Radical Botany reveals that this origin and endpoint are deeply informed by vegetality as a form of pre- and posthuman subjectivity. The trajectory of speculative fiction which this book traces offers insights into the human relationship to animate matter and the technological mediations through which we enter into contact with the material world. Plants profoundly shape human experience, from early modern absolutist societies to late capitalism’s manipulations of life and the onset of climate change and attendant mass extinction. A major intervention in critical plant studies, Radical Botany reveals the centuries-long history by which science and the arts have combined to posit plants as the model for all animate life and thereby envision a different future for the cosmos.
Author: Isaac Bayley Balfour
Publisher:
Published: 1889
Total Pages: 698
ISBN-13:
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Author: Sarah Neville
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-01-06
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1316515990
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the early modern herbal, Sarah Neville finds a captivating example of how Renaissance print culture shaped scientific authority.
Author: Sam George
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2017-10-03
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1526130173
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 relation to botany and charts the appearance of a new literary stereotype, the sexually precocious female botanist. She uncovers an anonymous poem on Linnaean botany, handwritten in the eighteenth century, and subsequently traces the development of a new genre of women’s writing — the botanical poem with scientific notes. The book is indispensable reading for all scholars of the eighteenth century, especially those interested in Romantic women’s writing, or the relationship between literature and science.
Author: Maxwell Tylden Masters
Publisher:
Published: 1872
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13:
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