A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Enlightenment

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2016
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-00992-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Introduction
1. Design, Timothy Mowl, University of Bristol, UK
2. Types of Gardens, Michael Charlesworth, University of Texas at Austin, USA
3. Plantings, Michael Symes, independent scholar
4. Use and Reception, David Lambert, independent scholar
5. Meaning, Patrick Eyres, independent scholar
6. Verbal Representations, Rachel Crawford, University of San Francisco, USA
7. Visual Representations, Annie Richardson, University of Lincoln, UK
8. Gardens and the Larger Landscape, Sarah Spooner, University of East Anglia, UK, and Tom Williamson, University of East Anglia, UK

Erscheinungsdatum	22.09.2016
Reihe/Serie	The Cultural Histories Series
Zusatzinfo	49 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-350-00992-X / 135000992X
ISBN-13	978-1-350-00992-9 / 9781350009929
Zustand	Neuware