Main entry:

Weltman-Aron, Brigitte, 1961-

Title & Author:

On other grounds : landscape gardening and nationalism in eighteenth-century England and France / Brigitte Weltman-Aron.

Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2001.

Description:

x, 190 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

SUNY series, the margins of literature

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-185).
Introduction: The Seeds of Discord -- Natural Nature -- Transitions or Simultaneity: A Political and Philosophical Question -- Problematizing "Transitions": Landscape Gardening -- Classicism in Quotation Marks: An Iteration -- Transitions: A Return -- The French against the French Style -- What Makes Nature Natural -- The Exemplarity of Water -- Repeating the English: A Rhetorical Graft -- National Nature -- English Resistances to the French -- French Reactions: Defending Le Notre -- French Reactions: Against Le Notre and the English Style -- Deferring the "Point of Perfection": The New French Garden (Natural Gardens) -- Nationalism in Gardens -- Nature as Liberty in English Treatises -- Nature as Liberty in French Treatises -- Trade Winds -- Anglophobia -- European Colonialism: Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes -- Canada and Guiana in Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes -- Communication: Alterity in Raynal -- Communication: Diderot's Savages and Civilized -- Communication: Of the Deaf-Mute -- Philosophical Gardens -- Colonizing Space -- Scopophilia -- Descartes and Locke -- Repetition and Displacement: Condillac -- Condillacian Effects: Attention -- Condillacian Effects: Imagination, Memory, Reminiscence -- Philosophical Gardens -- Conclusion: The Future of the Garden/The Garden of the Future -- The Garden in Movement in the History of Landscape Gardening -- The Andre Citroen Park: "Sharing the Signature" -- Garden without Man.

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0791448053 (alk. paper)
9780791448052 (alk. paper)
0791448061 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780791448069 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Landscape gardening England History 18th century.
Landscape gardening France History 18th century.
Gardens England Philosophy History 18th century.
Gardens France Philosophy History 18th century.
Nationalism in gardens.
Gardens England History Philosophy 18th century.
Gardens France History Philosophy 18th century.
Jardins Architecture Angleterre Histoire 18e siècle.
Jardins Architecture France Histoire 18e siècle.
Jardins Angleterre Histoire Philosophie 18e siècle.
Jardins France Histoire Philosophie 18e siècle.
Nationalisme et architecture des jardins.
Jardins Angleterre Philosophie Histoire 18e siècle.
Jardins France Philosophie Histoire 18e siècle.
Gardens Philosophy.
Landscape gardening.
Landschaftsgarten
Nationalismus
Ästhetik
England.
France.
Frankreich

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

SUNY series, the margins of literature.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218617
Call No.: SB470.55.G7 W46 2001
Status: Available