Gardenland nature, fantasy, and everyday practice

"Garden writing is not just a place to find advice about roses and rutabagas; it also contains hidden histories of desire, hope, and frustration and tells a story about how Americans have invested grand fantasies in the common soil of everyday life. Gardenland chronicles the development of this...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Atkinson, Jennifer Wren (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : The University of Georgia Press [2018]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b40583612*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • American garden writing and the reinvention of work as play
  • Lost at home: mapping the industrial-era garden and farm
  • Resensualizing the garden: from surface to substance in midcentury food -writing
  • Against the grain: reinventing the garden in contemporary utopia
  • Just gardens: uprooting and recovery in the postcolonial garden
  • Epilogue. garden writing and the phenomenology of dirt.