Ethnic Theatre in America

‘Queen Lilies’? The Interpenetration of Scientific, Religious and Gender Discourses in Victorian Representations of Plants

“…Ann Shteir demonstrates the changing relations between women and botanical study across the Romantic and Victorian periods with immense authority and clarity, establishing notable intellectual changes around the 1830s, where traditional periodisation locates one of its significant boundaries. 22 Yet, to use Raymond Williams's model, the dethronement of ideas from hegemonic dominance to residual influence was a complex and gradual process. 23 Even the cheaper books of the mid-nineteenth century were still potent repositories of authority.…”

Écfrasis Y Mitología en La Vida Es Sueño: El Mito De Céfiro Y Cloris

“…La revisión y comparación de estas historias permiten concluir con Ann B. Shteir que la presentación de Flora por Botticelli en Primavera contrasta con la ofrecida por Giovanni Boccaccio en Famous Women (1362) donde el autor la presenta como la Flora prostituta 36 Si bien es cierto que estas dos imágenes de Flora (como la prostituta y como la matrona o madre de las fl ores) se han mantenido dentro de la tradición cultural visual, es también indiscutible que «In all the instances of seventeenth-century books about plants, the goddess of fl owers is fi gure in the tradition of 'Flora Primavera'. She embodies regenerative fertility and is visualized as an icon of power with command over her part of nature» 38 .…”