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Gardenland : nature, fantasy, and everyday practice

Atkinson, Jennifer Wren, author

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\"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\" -- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Subject: American literature History and criticism. / Gardens in literature. / Gardening in literature. / Agriculture in literature. / Environmentalism in literature. / Agriculture Social aspects. / Horticultural literature United States History. / Environmental literature United States History and criticism.
• ISBN: 9780820353197

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS169.G37 A85 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE