Natania Meeker is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Voluptuous Philosophy: Literary Materialism in the French Enlightenment (Fordham, 2006), coauthor (with Antónia Szabari) of Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction (Fordham, 2020), and coeditor of Women Imagine Change: A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance, 600 B.C.E. to the Present (Routledge, 1997).

Antónia Szabari is professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. Her interests include early modern literature and political culture, interspecies ethics, plant ontology, and speculative fiction, both old and new. She is the author of Less Rightly Said: Scandals and Readers in Sixteenth-Century France (Stanford University Press, 2009) and co-author, with Natania Meeker, of Radical Botany: Plants and Speculaive Fiction (Fordham University Press, 2019), winner of the 2019 Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies book prize.

Preface | vii
1. Radical Botany: An Introduction | 1
2. Libertine Botany and Vegetal Modernity | 28
3. Plant Societies and Enlightened Vegetality | 56
4. The Inorganic Plant in the Romantic Garden | 86
5. The End of the World by Other Means | 114
6. Plant Horror: Love Your Own Pod | 144
7. Becoming Plant Nonetheless | 171
Acknowledgments | 203
Notes | 205
Works Cited | 253
Index | 269