The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island

Herausgeber: Conlin, Jonathan

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Produktbeschreibung

The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island draws together the work of musicologists, art historians, and scholars of urban studies and landscape design to explore the attractions and interactions of the pleasure garden, from the opening of Vauxhall in the seventeenth century to the amusement parks of the early twentieth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 137mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780812244380
• ISBN-10: 0812244389
• Artikelnr.: 35561831

Autorenporträt

Edited by Jonathan Conlin

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Jonathan Conlin 1
Chapter 1. Theaters of Hospitality: The Forms and Uses of Private
Landscapes and Public Gardens
John Dixon Hunt 29
Chapter 2. Pleasure Gardens and Urban Culture in the Long Eighteenth
Century
Peter Borsay 49
Chapter 3. Guns in the Gardens: Peter Monamy's Paintings for Vauxhall
Eleanor Hughes 78
Chapter 4. Performance Alfresco: Music-Making in London's Pleasure Gardens
Rachel Cowgill 100
Chapter 5. Pleasure Gardens of America: Anxieties of National Identity
Naomi Stubbs 127
Chapter 6. Pleasure Gardens in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: ''Useful for
All Classes of Society''
Lake Douglas 150
Chapter 7. Night and Day: Illusion and Carnivalesque at Vauxhall
Deborah Epstein Nord 177
Chapter 8. ''Strange Beauty in the Night'': Whistler's Nocturnes of
Cremorne Gardens
Anne Koval 195
Chapter 9. Edwardian Amusement Parks: The Pleasure Garden Reborn?
Josephine Kane 217
Notes 247
Select Bibliography 299
List of Contributors 303
Index 307
Acknowledgments 315