TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gianquitto,Tina
TI  - "Good observers of nature": American women and the scientific study of the natural world, 1820-1885 
SN  - 9780820336558
AV  - QH26 .G53 2007eb
U1  - 508.092 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Athens
PB  - University of Georgia Press
KW  - Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
KW  - Bitterfeld
KW  - gnd
KW  - Women naturalists
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Women botanists
KW  - Natural history
KW  - Nature in literature
KW  - Botany in literature
KW  - Natural History
KW  - Women
KW  - history
KW  - History, 19th Century
KW  - NATURE
KW  - Essays
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Reference
KW  - TRAVEL
KW  - Special Interest
KW  - Ecotourism
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Science & Technology
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Women Authors
KW  - fast
KW  - Naturwissenschaftlerin
KW  - Frau
KW  - Naturwissenschaften
KW  - USA
KW  - Geschichte 19. Jh
KW  - idsbb
KW  - Botanikerin
KW  - Frauenliteratur
KW  - amerikanische
KW  - idszbz
KW  - swd
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-211) and index; Introduction. The languages of nature : an overview -- Botany's beautiful arrangement : Almira Phelps and Enlightenment science -- The pressure of hidden causes : Margaret Fuller and Romantic science -- The noble designs of nature : Susan Fenimore Cooper, natural science, and the picturesque aesthetic -- Spiders, ants, and carnivorous plants : Mary Treat and evolutionary science -- Epilogue. Human homes in nature's household : the emergence of a conservation ethic
N2  - "In 'Good Observers of Nature' Tina Gianquitto examines nineteenth-century American women's intellectual and aesthetic experiences of nature and the linguistic, perceptual, and scientific systems that were available to women to describe those experiences. Many women writers of this period used the natural world as a platform for discussing issues of domesticity, education, and the nation. To what extend, asks Gianquitto, did these writers challenge the prevalent sentimental narrative modes (like those used in the popular flower language books) and use scientific terminology to describe the world around them? Though Gianquitto explores a range of women's nature writing (botanical manuals, plant catalogs, travel narratives, seasonal journals, scientific essays), she focuses on four writers and their most influential works : Almira Phelops (Familiar Lectures on Botany, 1829), Margaret Fuller (Summer on the Lakes, in 1843), Susan Fenimore Cooper (Rural Hours, 1850), and Mary Treat (Home Studies in Nature, 1885)."--Back cover
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