| On Other Grounds: Landscape Gardening and Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century England and France Contributor(s): Weltman-Aron, Brigitte (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791448053 ISBN-13: 9780791448052 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Landscape |
| Dewey: 712.094 |
| LCCN: 00026554 |
| Series: Suny Series, the Margins of Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (0.84 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: On Other Grounds addresses the broader impacts of the English landscape movement on French gardening during the latter half of the eighteenth century. Through readings of the relevant texts of major authors of the period--including Voltaire, Newton, Rousseau, Condillac, Descartes, Diderot, Walpole, and Locke--the author demonstrates the links between landscape gardening, the formation of national identity, and nationalism in England and France. Themes that are central to Enlightenment studies are explored, including theories of nature, the picturesque, sensibility, the rise of nationalism, and colonialism. |