'Disciples of Flora'
Title | 'Disciples of Flora' PDF eBook |
Author | Victoria Emma Pagán |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | 209 |
Release | 2015-09-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1443881317 |
‘Disciples of Flora’ explores, through a variety of approaches, disciplines, and historical periods, the place and vitality of gardens as cultural objects, repositories of meaning, and sites for the construction of identity and subjectivity; gardens being an eminent locus where culture and nature meet. This collection of essays contributes to a revision of histories of gardens by broadening the scope of scholarly inquiry to include a long history from ancient Rome to the present, in which contesting memories delineate new apprehensions of topography and space. The contributors draw attention to alternative landscapes or gardening practices, while recalling the ways in which spaces have been invested with an affective dimension that has itself been historicized.
Women, Literature, and the Domesticated Landscape
Title | Women, Literature, and the Domesticated Landscape PDF eBook |
Author | Judith W. Page |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 339 |
Release | 2011-01-27 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0521768659 |
An interdisciplinary study of the 'domesticated' or home landscape as it shapes women's lives and their ways of writing.
Flora's Fieldworkers
Title | Flora's Fieldworkers PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Shteir |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | 487 |
Release | 2022-08-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0228013461 |
When Catharine Parr Traill came to Upper Canada in 1832 as a settler from England, she brought along with her ties to British botanical culture. Nonetheless, when she arrived she encountered a new natural landscape and, like other women chronicled in this book, set out to advance the botanical knowledge of the time from the Canadian field. Flora’s Fieldworkers employs biography, botanical data, herbaria specimens, archival sources, letters, institutional records, book history, and abundant artwork to reconstruct the ways in which women studied and understood plants in the nineteenth century. It features figures ranging from elite women involved in imperial botanical projects in British North America to settler-colonial women in Ontario and Australia – most of whom were scarcely visible in the historical record – who were active in “plant work” as collectors, writers, artists, craft workers, teachers, and organizers. Understood as an appropriate pastime for genteel ladies, botany offered women pathways to scientific education, financial autonomy, and self-expression. The call for more diverse voices in the present must look to the past as well. Bringing botany to historians and historians to botany, Flora’s Fieldworkers gathers compelling material about women in colonial and imperial Canada and Australia to take a new look at how we came to know what we know about plants.
Women, Literature, and the Arts of the Countryside in Early Twentieth-Century England
Title | Women, Literature, and the Arts of the Countryside in Early Twentieth-Century England PDF eBook |
Author | Judith W. Page |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 277 |
Release | 2021-03-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108491154 |
This book examines the centrality of the countryside to women's work, creativity, and aspirations in early-twentieth-century England.
Flora and Her Mother; Or, Thoughts for Christmas Day. (Flora and Her Mother; Or Thoughts for Good Friday and Easter. Flora and Her Mother; Or, Thoughts for Ascension Day and Whitsuntide.).
Title | Flora and Her Mother; Or, Thoughts for Christmas Day. (Flora and Her Mother; Or Thoughts for Good Friday and Easter. Flora and Her Mother; Or, Thoughts for Ascension Day and Whitsuntide.). PDF eBook |
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Total Pages | 44 |
Release | 1860 |
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In His Name
Title | In His Name PDF eBook |
Author | E Christopher Reyes |
Publisher | Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | 379 |
Release | 2018-03-24 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1490787968 |
In His Name is a research into biblical history, its ramifications on the thinking of mankind, and its continuous alterations that serve the few.
The Sacred Flora
Title | The Sacred Flora PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Bacon |
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Total Pages | 168 |
Release | 1845 |
Genre | Children's literature |
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