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Animated beings : enlightenment entomology for girls
George, Sam (2010-12)This short exploration of Enlightenment entomology for girls draws on the epistolary and dialogic form that was so crucial to young women's engagement with natural science in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth ... -
Botany, Sexuality and Women's Writing 1760-1830: From Modest Shoot to Forward Plant
George, Sam (Manchester University Press, 2007-11) -
Epistolary Exchange : the Familiar Letter and the Female Botanist, 1760-1820
George, Sam (2011-10)An investigation into women’s involvement with botany in the eighteenth century invariably leads to the culture of letters. The Duchess of Portland (1715-1785) compiled notebooks on natural history, but it is her letters ... -
'He make in the mirror no reflect': Undead aesthetics and mechanical reproduction - Dorian Gray, Dracula, and David Reed's 'vampiric painting'
George, Samantha (Manchester University Press, 2013) -
'He make in the mirror no reflect': undead aesthetics and mechanical reproduction -'Dorian Gray', 'Dracula', and David Reed's 'vampire painting'
George, Samantha (Manchester University Press, 2013-12-01)In this chapter I attempt to uncover the origins of the non-reflection motif and interrogate the vampire’s complex relationship to this optical phenomenon. I focus, to begin with, on Stoker’s handwritten notes for Dracula ... -
'I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself': the metafictional meanings of lycanthropic transformation in Doctor Who
Phillips, Ivan (Manchester University Press, 2020-01-31)This chapter was developed from a paper ('I was a teenage Whovian but I'm all right now-eee-ooooooooo-ooo-eeh-yooooooooo: the metafictional meanings of lycanthropic transformation in Doctor Who') delivered at the Open ... -
Introduction
George, Samantha; Hughes, Bill (Manchester University Press, 2013) -
Introduction. Botanising Women : Transmission, Translation and European Exchange
George, Sam; Martin, Alison E. (2011-10)The papers published in this special themed issue of the Journal of Literature and Science on women and botany are part of a project which developed from a panel at the 2009 British Society for Literature and Science ... -
Linnaeus in letters and the cultivation of the female mind: "Botany in an English dress"
George, Sam (2005)In the eighteenth century many botanical texts were specifically addressed to the female sex. The language and arguments of botany, centring around reproduction and sexuality, experience and science, classification and ... -
'Not Strictly Proper For A Female Pen': Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Sexuality of Botany
George, Sam (2005)Examines the adaptations of Carl Linnaeus' "Systema Naturae," which introduced a new classification system of plants based on a sexual system of botany, by William Withering, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward. Use of botany ... -
Open Graves, Open Minds : Representations of Vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the Present Day
George, Sam; Hughes, Bill; School of Humanities; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; English Literature and Creative Writing; English Literature (Manchester University Press, 2013-11)This collection of essays relates the undead in literature, art, and other media to questions concerning gender, technology, consumption, and social change. It covers the Enlightenment investigation of vampires by Dom ... -
The Vampire in the Machine : exploring the undead interface
Phillips, Ivan (Manchester University Press, 2013-11) -
When wolves cry: wolf-children, storytelling, and the state of nature
George, Samantha (Manchester University Press, 2020-01)