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

Author/creator Liu, Yu, 1955-
Format Book
Publication InfoColumbia : University of South Carolina Press, ©2008.
Descriptionx, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [181]-200) and index.
LCCN 2008024035
ISBN1570037698 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781570037696 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PR 129.C6 L58 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold