Seeds of a different Eden : Chinese gardening ideas and a new English aesthetic ideal
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| Author | Liu Yu 劉豫
| | Pub. Location | Columbia, SC | Publisher | University of South Carolina Press | | Date | 2008 | Phys. Desc. | x, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. | | Location | Hallway Cases | Call Number | PR129.C6 L58 2008 |
Seeds of a different Eden : Chinese gardening ideas and a new English aesthetic ideal / Yu Liu.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-200) and index.
Name discrepancy: Liu Yu 劉豫 is used in SWCRJ no.33, while LC auth. rec. gives Liu Yu with two different "yu" characters: 劉宇 and 劉瑜], and date 1955-
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. |
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