Seeds of a different eden : Chinese gardening ideas and a new English aesthetic ideal
Title:
Seeds of a different eden : Chinese gardening ideas and a new English aesthetic ideal
Author:
Liu, Yu, 1955-
ISBN:
9781570037696
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2008.
Physical Description:
x, 208 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Introduction : Beyond Walpole and chinoiserie -- The impetus for change : Chinese sharawadgi and English horticultural naturalism -- The ambiguous contrast : the oriental tian (heaven) and the occidental zhu (deus) -- In the name of the ancients : Alexander Pope's iconoclastic georgic -- Landscape and freedom : Joseph Addison's affinity with nature -- The call of the wild : Shaftesbury's revolution of aesthetics and ethics -- The paradigmatic shift : the far eastern influence on western modernity.
Electronic Access:
Table of contents only
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-200) and index.
Field 805:
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