Botanical entanglements : women, natural science, and the arts in eighteenth-century England / Anna K. Sagal.
Material type: TextPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: ix, 281 pages : [6] color illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 0813946956
- 9780813946955
- 9780813946962
- 0813946964
- QH21.G7 S24 2022
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Non-lending Books | Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves | QK26 .S24 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 39352800187593 |
Includes bibliographical references (257-272) and index.
"This book examines the subversive ways in which women made their mark on the scientific landscape of eighteenth-century England. By taking advantage of intersections between domesticity, femininity, and nature, the writers and artists of this study laid claim to a specific authority on naturalist subjects, ranging from botany to entomology to natural history more broadly"--