One of the goals of this book is to demonstrate that while the pastoral seems to portray troubling fractures between the social self and native soil, Wharton is more struck by how these ostensibly divergent cultural categories superimpose and interpenetrate to form an ecocritical palimpsest.
One of the goals of this book is to demonstrate that while the pastoral seems to portray troubling fractures between the social self and native soil, Wharton is more struck by how these ostensibly divergent cultural categories superimpose and interpenetrate to form an ecocritical palimpsest.
Margarida Cadima is an ecocriticism scholar and an adjunct professor in the English Writing, Literature, and Publishing department at The American University of Rome. She earned her PhD in English Literature at the University of Glasgow in 2021.
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Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. GARDENS, Chapter 1. The Pastoral Cosmopolitanism of the (Not So) Secret Garden Chapter 2. American Back Grounds Chapter 3. Garden "Haunts" Chapter 4. Central Park as an "Ecological Threshold"? Chapter 5. French Gardens and Their Meaning PART II. MOUNTAINS, Chapter 6. "Endless Plays of Mountain Forms": Mapping the Mountains Chapter 7. Edith Wharton's European Mountains of Leisure Chapter 8. Rural Americana and the "New World" Mountains PART III. RUIN/ATION Chapter 9. Romantic Ruins? Edith Wharton's Sedimented Vision Chapter 10. "Old" Ruins as a Melancholic Object and a Critique of Empire Chapter 11. Stony Waste-The "New Ruin" in the Modern Metropolis and Garden Ruins Conclusion Appendix 1: Spring in a French Riviera Garden Appendix 2: December in a French Rivera Garden Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. GARDENS, Chapter 1. The Pastoral Cosmopolitanism of the (Not So) Secret Garden Chapter 2. American Back Grounds Chapter 3. Garden "Haunts" Chapter 4. Central Park as an "Ecological Threshold"? Chapter 5. French Gardens and Their Meaning PART II. MOUNTAINS, Chapter 6. "Endless Plays of Mountain Forms": Mapping the Mountains Chapter 7. Edith Wharton's European Mountains of Leisure Chapter 8. Rural Americana and the "New World" Mountains PART III. RUIN/ATION Chapter 9. Romantic Ruins? Edith Wharton's Sedimented Vision Chapter 10. "Old" Ruins as a Melancholic Object and a Critique of Empire Chapter 11. Stony Waste-The "New Ruin" in the Modern Metropolis and Garden Ruins Conclusion Appendix 1: Spring in a French Riviera Garden Appendix 2: December in a French Rivera Garden Bibliography Index
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