"The often overlapping discourses of nationalism and imperialism, along with related ideas of social decline, have been central in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-European views of the world. This book offers four readings of Latin literary texts to show that the templat…
Exploring the garden as a locus of transformation and transgression in the 'De Re Rustica' of Columella, the 'Satires' of Horace, the 'Annals' of Tacitus, and the 'Confessions' of Saint Augustine, this book considers images of gardens from a kaleidoscope of genres, those that th…
""Rome and the Literature of Gardens"" explores the garden as a powerful locus of transformation and transgression in the ""De Re Rustica"" of Columella, the ""Satires"" of Horace, the ""Annals"" of Tacitus, and the ""Confessions"" of Saint Augustine. In keeping with the approac…
Exploring the garden as a locus of transformation and transgression in the 'De Re Rustica' of Columella, the 'Satires' of Horace, the 'Annals' of Tacitus, and the 'Confessions' of Saint Augustine, this book considers images of gardens from a kaleidoscope of genres, those that th…
Exploring the garden as a locus of transformation and transgression in the 'De Re Rustica' of Columella, the 'Satires' of Horace, the 'Annals' of Tacitus, and the 'Confessions' of Saint Augustine, this book considers images of gardens from a kaleidoscope of genres, those that th…
