A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Enlightenment

Herausgeber: Bending, Stephen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Enlightenment raised fundamental questions about what it meant to be human in a truly global world. At the heart of debates about nature, culture and history, the garden offered itself as a practical demonstration, a living experiment, and a site of debate and discourse. The design, planting, experience and representation of contemporary gardens in Europe, China and North America reveal intense contributions to debates on aesthetics, both personal and national politics, and on the shaping of nature. A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Enlightenment presents an overview of the period with essays on issues of design, types of gardens, planting, use and reception, issues of meaning, verbal and visual representation of gardens, and the relationship of gardens to the larger landscape.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 165mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780857850324
• ISBN-10: 0857850326
• Artikelnr.: 42698445

Autorenporträt

Stephen Bending is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Women, Gardens and Eighteenth-Century Culture, and co-editor of Writing Rural England 1500-1800.

Inhaltsangabe

A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Stephen Bending Introduction Design
Timothy Mowl
University of Bristol
UK Types of Gardens
Michael Charlesworth
University of Texas at Austin
USA Plantings
Michael Symes
independent scholar Use and Reception
David Lambert
independent scholar Meaning
Patrick Eyres
independent scholar Verbal Representations
Rachel Crawford
University of San Francisco
USA Visual Representations
Annie Richardson
University of Lincoln
UK Gardens and the Larger Landscape
Sarah Spooner
University of East Anglia
UK
and Tom Williamson
University of East Anglia
UK