Flora's Go-betweens: Nectar, Insects, and Flowers in the Romantic Natural History of Pollination.
A boundary-crossing substance connecting flowers and insects, nectar occupied a contested position during the Romantic period, provoking debates regarding who stood most to profit from it: insects or the plants themselves? Such questions also surrounded another floral substance: pollen mediated betw...
| Publicado en: | Romanticism Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 3 - 22 |
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Edinburgh University Press
Apr2019
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