Landscape design & revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688-1815 / Finola O'Kane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Kane, Finola, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape design--Ireland--History.

Landscape design.

Landscape design--United States--History.

Landscape design--Philosophy.

Landscape design--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

ix, 262 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color), plans (chiefly color) ; 29 x 26 cm

Distribution:

New Haven : Yale University Press

Other Title:

Landscape design and revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688-1815

Place of Publication:

London : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 2023.

Summary:

Spanning the designed landscapes of England's Glorious Revolution of 1688, the American Revolution of 1776 and the Irish rebellion of 1798, with some detours into revolutionary France, this book traces a comparative history of property structures and landscape design across the eighteenth-century Atlantic world and evolving concepts of plantation and improvement within imperial ideology. Revolutionaries such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, George Washington, Arthur Young, Lord Edward FitzGerald and Pierce Butler constructed houses, farms and landscape gardens, many of which have since been forgotten or selectively overlooked. How did the new republics and revolutionaries, having overthrown social hierarchies, translate their principles into spatial form? As the eighteenth-century ideology of improvement was applied to a variety of transatlantic and enslaved environments, new landscape designs were created, stretching from the suburbs of Dublin to the sea islands of the state of Georgia. Yet these revolutionary ideas of equality and freedom often contradicted reality, particularly where the traditional design of the great landed estate, the building block of aristocratic power throughout Europe, intersected with that of the farm and the plantation.

Contents:

Introduction: Plantation, improvement and revolution

Plantation to glorious revolution

landscapes of improvement

improving Mount Vernon

Subversive suburbias

The plantation revolution

in absentia, Arcadia?

Landscapes of contradiction

Conclusion: A more equal landscape?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-251) and index.

Local Notes:

HSP Credit Line: 1). Roswell King to Pierce Butler (Carr's island drawing), 2 June 1804. Butler Family Papers [1447]. Box 2, folder 12. 1 TIFF. Pg 149; 2).Plan of Darian, Georgia, Butler Family papers [1447], box 10, folder 23. 1 TIFF. pg 158; 3). The Older Butler Mansion, 1836. K:2-3. David Kennedy Watercolors [V61]. 1 TIFF, pg 178; 4). "Old Butler Place Old York Road & the Old Butler Gardens, Branchtown, Phila." Jane Campbell Scrapbook Collection[V71]. Box 23A, P.196. 1 TIFF. pg177; 5). "Butler Place Old York Road, Fanny Kemble home." Jane Campbell Scrapbook Collection [V71}. Box 23A, p.197. 1 TIFF. Pg 177.

ISBN:

9781913107383

1913107388

OCLC:

1374571934