Radical science : plants, agency, and nineteenth-century British narrative / Mary Bowden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowden, Mary K., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and science--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and science.

Plants in literature.

Botany in literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Plants, agency, and nineteenth-century British narrative

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2026]

Summary:

"Expands beyond Charles Darwin's work in physiological botany to examine how nineteenth-century debates about plants' agency were also applied to people throughout literary and popular discussions of race, gender, and class, covering writers such as Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Kingsley, H. G. Wells, and Erasmus, Charles, and Francis Darwin"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Plant plots

Physiological botany’s radical roots

Plant-people in the social problem novel

Charles Darwin’s radicle science

H. G. Wells’s plantocenes

Conclusion: seeing plants.

Physiological botany's radical roots

Charles Darwin's radicle science

H. G. Wells's plantocenes

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 26, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Bowden, Mary K. Radical science.

ISBN:

9780814284872

0814284876

9780814285282

0814285287

OCLC:

1579964373

Publisher Number:

CIPO000355655