The Green Fuse

Essays in Making Sense of Gardens

Peter Dale (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2025
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-83639-028-2 (ISBN)

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An unusually wide-ranging and thoughtful perspective on why we make gardens.

Why do interiors of houses mimic nature – the wallpapers and curtains, flowers in vases, a vaporizer in the bathroom? Why do we so often connect our childhoods with gardens? Why has the myth of a lost Eden been so ubiquitous and so formative?
The Green Fuse: Essays in Making Sense of Gardens explores our deep-rooted impulses to create gardens, examining them through the lenses of history, religion, nostalgia and myth. It connects gardens with the other arts – painting, music, literature and theatre – and contemplates their intellectual and philosophical significance. Blending lyrical reflections with research, it offers an unusually wide-ranging and thoughtful perspective on gardens and why we make them. It will be ideal for all readers interested in gardening and its cultural implications.

Peter Dale lives in Essex, UK. A longstanding contributor to Hortus, he has written extensively on literature, music and gardens, and his previous books include The Irish Garden: A Cultural History (2018) and, with Brandon C. Yen, Versed in Living Nature: Wordsworth’s Trees (Reaktion, 2022).

Introduction

1 Mazes and
Labyrinths

2 Gardens
and Time

3 The Garden
as Theatre

4 Interlude:
Ilnacullin, County Cork, Ireland

5 The Green
Chapel

6 Interlude:
St Mary’s Churchyard, Mundon, Essex

7 The Green
Study

8 Interlude:
Green Thoughts

9 Garden
Follies

10
Interlude: Some Favourite Follies

11 The
Garden of England

12 Gardens
and Painting

13
Interlude: Essex and Suffolk, Giverny and Arles

14 Gardens
and Music

15 Walls,
Hedges and Fencing with Ourselves

16
Interlude: Two Gardens Enclosed

17 The
Garden Party

18 Peter and
Pan

References

Acknowledgements

Photo
Acknowledgements

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.05.2025
Zusatzinfo	41 illustrations, 19 in colour
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-83639-028-9 / 1836390289
ISBN-13	978-1-83639-028-2 / 9781836390282
Zustand	Neuware