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Clandestine Marriage:

Botany and Romantic Culture
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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. Color illustrations of flower paintings from the time bring 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 Darwins 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.

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Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Botanical Matters
3. Botany's Publics and Privates
4. Botanizing Women
5. Clare's Commonable Plants
Interlude One: Mala's Garden
6. Reading Matter and Paint
Interlude Two: A Romantic Garden
7. Restless Romantic Plants and Philosophers
8. Conclusion
Notes
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Index

""Clandestine Marriage is an engaging and intelligent work, made all the more superb by the vibrant botanical illustrations that populate it. It also strikes an excellent balance between literary analysis, historical investigations, and theoretical discussions, no easy feat to achieve.""

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