Part One: Understanding Plant Monsters 1. "What a Strange Prodigy": The Welwitschia mirabilis Katherine Arnold (University of Liverpool, UK) 2. No Monsters Here: Vegetable Teratology and Plant Horror Stella Sandford (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 3. Abnormal Plants and Anomalous Arts: Troubling the Non/Human Norm Aliya Say (Independent scholar) 4. The "Plant Horror" of Turpin''s Urpflanze and Hooker''s Welwitschia: Narratives of Monstrous Proliferation and Grotesque Hybridity Caroline Harris (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) Part Two: Narrating Plant Desires 5. Thinking Sex with Plants: The Speculative Sexualities of Enlightenment Botany Natania Meeker ( University of Southern California, USA) 6. Fern Tongues: A Pteridomaniac''s Imagination of Vegetal Time and Desire Solvejg Nitzke ( Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) 7. Dragon Arum: A Phytopoetic Gaze on Vegetal Violence and Eroticism Joela Jacobs ( University of Arizona, USA) 8.
The Quest for the Blue Flower: The Legacy of German Romanticism in Three Contemporary Novels Isabel Kranz ( University for Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria) Part Three: Rediscovering Plant Agency 9. The Temporality of Titan Arum John C. Ryan ( University of Notre Dame, Australia) 10. Prickly-Pairs: On Humans, Plants, and Technicity Ed Thornton (Independent Researcher) 11. Extending the Botanical: Agency, Abstraction and Contemporary Plant Drawing Danielle Sands (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) Part Four: Resituating Plants Ecologically 12. Undoing the Hollow Space of Representation: Margaret Mee''s Plant Portraits in the Kew Collection Yota Batsaki ( Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University USA) 13. Papa and Kuka: A Biocultural Exploration of Two Andean Crops Nataly Allasi Canales ( University of Copenhagen, Denmark/Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK) and Kim Walker ( Royal Holloway, University of London, UK/Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) 14. Lacebark and the Interior Décor of the Jamaican Slave Cottage Steeve Buckridge (Grand Valley State University, USA) 15.
Humboldt and Bonpland''s Essay on the Geography of Plants: The Other Side of the Physical Tableau of the Andes Quentin Hiernaux (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Part Five: Redrawing Plant Boundaries 16. "Where Nature stopped half-way": Waterlilies and the Foliar Theory of the Flower Ulrich Stegmann ( University of Aberdeen, UK) 17. The Place of Algae in Experimental Natural Histories Joan Steigerwald ( University of York, UK) 18. A "Funeral Oration" for Lichenology? Lydia Azadpour (University of Nottingham, UK) Part Six: Representing Plants Otherwise 19. This is not a Brugmansia Giovanni Aloi (Independent Researcher) 20. Ginkgo and Dark Botany Prudence Gibson ( University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) and Maya Martin-Westheimer ( University of New South Wales ) 21. Anna Atkins'' Cyanotypes: Gestures for Hands Driven by Sunlight Redell Olsen ( Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 22. The Ecology of Plant Iconography Laurence Hill (Independent Artist) Part Seven: Reimagining Plant Forms 23.
Blue So Deep Ben Woodard (Independent Researcher) 24. Containing Nature in the Leaves of a Book: Botany, Bibliography, and the Embodiment of Thought Thomas Moynihan ( University of Cambridge, UK) 25. Drawing the Urpflanze: Goethe, Arber, Grothendieck Sophie Gerber ( University of Bordeaux, France) Afterword: The Library and Archives at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Julia Buckley ( Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK).