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" Clandestine marriage : "
Theresa M. Kelley
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BL
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642753
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dltt
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Kelley, Theresa M
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Clandestine marriage : : botany and Romantic culture /\ Theresa M. Kelley
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Baltimore :: The Johns Hopkins University Press,, ©2012
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x, 342 pages, [40] pages of plates :: illustrations (chiefly color) ;; 25 cm
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9781421405179 (hdbk. : acid-free paper)
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: 1421405172 (hdbk. : acid-free paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-323) and index
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| Contents
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Botanical matters -- Botany's publics and privates -- Botanizing women -- Clare's commonable plants -- Reading matter and paint -- Restless romantic plants and philosophers -- Conclusion: Wild orchids
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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. -- Book jacket
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Literature, Modern-- 19th century-- History and criticism
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Botany in literature
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Plants in literature
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Literature and science
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Romanticism
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PN56.B73K45 2012
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