Description: Confronting the relationship between words and images in the representation of plant life in Western modernity, this interdisciplinary book examines the ways in which plants have been theorised both in contemporary plant humanities and modern thinking about plants more generally.
Brief description: Danielle Sands is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Review Quotes: "A fascinating collection that explores the myriad different ways in which humans see and represent plants and questions the biases inherent in the Western botanic gaze." --Patricia I. Vieira, Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal