TY  - BOOK
AU  - Atkinson,Jennifer Wren
TI  - Gardenland: nature, fantasy, and everyday practice 
SN  - 9780820353180
AV  - PS169.G37 A85 2018eb
U1  - 810.9/364 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Athens
PB  - The University of Georgia Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Gardens in literature
KW  - Gardening in literature
KW  - Agriculture in literature
KW  - Environmentalism in literature
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Horticultural literature
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Environmental literature
KW  - Jardins dans la littérature
KW  - Jardinage dans la littérature
KW  - Agriculture dans la littérature
KW  - Environnementalisme dans la littérature
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Horticulture
KW  - Documentation
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Subjects & Themes
KW  - Nature
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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 genre across key moments in American literature and history, from nineteenth-century industrialization and urbanization to the twentieth-century rise of factory farming and environmental advocacy to contemporary debates about public space and social justice--even to the consideration of the future of humanity's place on earth. Gardenland examines literary fiction, horticultural publications, and environmental writing, including works by Charles Dudley Warner, Henry David Thoreau, Willa Cather, Jamaica Kincaid, John McPhee, and Leslie Marmon Silko. Ultimately, Gardenland asks what the past century and a half of garden writing might tell us about our current social and ecological moment, and it offers surprising insight into our changing views about the natural world, along with realms that may otherwise seem remote from the world of leeks and hollyhocks"--
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