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Author:   Judith W. Page (Professor, University of Florida) ,  Elise L. Smith
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   76
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781107420236

ISBN 10:   1107420237
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   27 March 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. Moral Order: The School of Nature: 1. 'In the home garden': moral tales for children; 2. The 'botanic eye': botany, miniature, and magnification; Part II. The Visual Frame: Constructing a View: 3. Picturing the 'home landscape': the nature of accomplishment; 4. Commanding a view: the Taylor sisters and the construction of domestic space; Part III. Personal Practice: Making Gardens Grow: 5. Dorothy Wordsworth: gardening, self-fashioning, and creation of home; 6. 'Work in a small compass': gardening manuals for women; Part IV. Narrative Strategies: Plotting the Garden: 7. 'Unbought pleasure': gardening in Cœlebs in Search of a Wife and Mansfield Park; 8. Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford and the meaning of Victorian gardens; Epilogue.

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'This volume will be useful to a wide range of readers. Scholars of the genre will delight in the richness of the textual references and use of illustrations to ground the discussions.' Romantic Circles

'This volume will be useful to a wide range of readers. Scholars of the genre will delight in the richness of the textual references and use of illustrations to ground the discussions.' Romantic Circles 'This beautiful, extensively researched book confers order, clarity, and critical insight on the ubiquity of gardens in women's lives and creative work from 1780 to 1870 … Seventy-two sumptuous illustrations complement the lucid and graceful writing … Page and Smith's work provides scholars a most inviting and thought-provoking resource to explore.' Mary Ellen Bellanca, Victorian Studies 'Brady examines both the history of the concept and more contemporary re-appropriations of the term. Her two chapters on the Kantian understanding of sublimity are excellent, as is the final chapter on the environmental sublime. This book deserves to be regularly included in courses on aesthetics.' R. E. Kraft, Choice

'This volume will be useful to a wide range of readers. Scholars of the genre will delight in the richness of the textual references and use of illustrations to ground the discussions.' Romantic Circles 'This beautiful, extensively researched book confers order, clarity, and critical insight on the ubiquity of gardens in women's lives and creative work from 1780 to 1870 ... Seventy-two sumptuous illustrations complement the lucid and graceful writing ... Page and Smith's work provides scholars a most inviting and thought-provoking resource to explore.' Mary Ellen Bellanca, Victorian Studies 'Brady examines both the history of the concept and more contemporary re-appropriations of the term. Her two chapters on the Kantian understanding of sublimity are excellent, as is the final chapter on the environmental sublime. This book deserves to be regularly included in courses on aesthetics.' R. E. Kraft, Choice

Author Information

Judith W. Page is Professor of English and Waldo W. Neikirk Term Professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida, where she also serves as Interim Director of the Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research. Elise L. Smith is Professor of Art History and Sanderson Chair in Arts and Sciences at Millsaps College, Mississippi.

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