| dc.contributor.author | George, Sam | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-10-08T08:48:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2009-10-08T08:48:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | George , S 2005 , ' 'Not Strictly Proper For A Female Pen': Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Sexuality of Botany ' , Comparative Critical Studies , vol. 2 , no. 2 , pp. 191-210 . | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1744-1854 | |
| dc.identifier.other | dspace: 2299/3934 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/3934 | |
| dc.description | Original article can be found at: http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk Copyright Edinburgh University Press. | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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 not only for conservative but also subversive social and political ends; Fear by moralists that descriptions of the promiscuity of plant life might offend female delicacy; Withering's disguise of the sexual character of the Linnaean classes and orders. | en |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Comparative Critical Studies | |
| dc.title | 'Not Strictly Proper For A Female Pen': Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Sexuality of Botany | en |
| dc.contributor.institution | English Literature and Creative Writing | |
| dc.contributor.institution | School of Creative Arts | |
| dc.contributor.institution | English Literature | |
| dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
| rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
| herts.preservation.rarelyaccessed | true | |
