Foreign Trends in American Gardens A History of Exchange, Adaptation, and Reception / edited by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fabiani Giannetto, Raffaella, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardens--United States--Foreign influences--History.

Gardens.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.

Summary:

The complexity of American gardens--their combination of the historic and the modern, and of foreign cultures and local values--is their most distinctive characteristic.

Contents:

Intro

Introduction

PART 1 British Influences

The American Translation of the Picturesque

Studying Peculiarities

PART 2 French Exchanges

"These Beautiful Pleasure- Grounds of Death"

Of Monarchical Climates and Republican Soil

PART 3 The Reception of the Italian Garden in America

The American Colonial Garden and the Garden of the Country Place Era

Camera Bella

PART 4 The American Identity as Perceived by the Americans and the Foreigners

Considering Fitness and Fairness

Growing Home

A European "Northerner" in California

PART 5 The Pull of the Orient

Political Landscapes

The Garden Network

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813939292

0813939291

OCLC:

964656477