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Author:

Liu, Yu, 1955-

Title:

Seeds of a different eden : Chinese gardening ideas and a new English aesthetic ideal / Yu Liu.

Publisher:

University of South Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

x, 208 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--History and criticism
English literature--Chinese influences.
Gardens, Chinese--England.
Authors, English--Aesthetics.
Gardens--Social aspects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-200) and index.

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.

ISBN:

9781570037696 (cloth : alk. paper)
1570037698 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)227922382

LCCN:

2008024035

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)