A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Enlightenment

Stephen Bending (University of Southampton, UK)

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English

Berg Publishers
23 May 2013

Landscape art & architecture; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Social & cultural history; Gardens (descriptions, history etc)

Series: The Cultural Histories Series

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.

Edited by: Stephen Bending (University of Southampton UK)
Imprint: Berg Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 7
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 169mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 752g
ISBN: 9780857850324
ISBN 10: 0857850326
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 23 May 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.

Reviews for A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Enlightenment

An exciting and unusual approach to a perhaps undervalued aspect of history . . . [that] usefully fills a niche area of research and study. [A Cultural History of Gardens] provides an important and fascinating insight through thought-provoking essays and will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of the garden . . . [and] the development of human society in general. -- Louise Ellis-Barrett, St. John's School, Leatherhead, UK * Reference Reviews, vol. 28 *