Judith W. Page, Elise L. Smith

Women, Literature, and the Domesticated Landscape

England's Disciples of Flora, 1780 1870

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An interdisciplinary study of the 'domesticated' or home landscape as it shapes women's lives and their ways of writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9781107420236
• ISBN-10: 1107420237
• Artikelnr.: 40551515

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Clebs in Search
of a Wife and Mansfield Park; 8. Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of
Carlingford and the meaning of Victorian gardens; Epilogue.