Books by Leah Knight

Ranging across contexts from early modern optics and olfaction to horticultural grafting and herbal health care, this book offers a cultural history of a colour. It mines many pages from the period-not literally but tropically.

Examining both poetic and botanical texts, as well as the poetics of botanical texts, this study focuses on the two English botanical writers of the sixteenth century, William Turner and John Gerard, to suggest the unexpected historical relationship between literature and science in the early modern genre of the herbal.