Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix List of Abbreviations xi 1 Introduction 1 2 Botanical Matters 17 3 Botany’s Publics and Privates 52 4 Botanizing Women 90 5 Clare’s Commonable Plants 126 INTERLUDE ONE Mala’s Garden: A Caribbean Interlude 159 6 Reading Matter and Paint 162 INTERLUDE two A Romantic Garden: Shelley on Vitality and Decay 210 7 Restless Romantic Plants and Philosophers 216 8 Conclusion 246 Notes 263 Bibliography 299 Index 325 This page intentionally left blank ...