An exploration of the various ways two settings, gardens and libraries, are used in various ways throughout Bernard Shaw's work.
An exploration of the various ways two settings, gardens and libraries, are used in various ways throughout Bernard Shaw's work.
For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a fascinating tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These books powerfully evoke the desires of gardeners: they show us gardeners who, like poets, imagine not just what is but what should be.…
For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a fascinating tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These books powerfully evoke the desires of gardeners: they show us gardeners who, like poets, imagine not just what is but what should be.…
For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a fascinating tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These books powerfully evoke the desires of gardeners: they show us gardeners who, like poets, imagine not just what is but what should be.…
During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - was a common literary device. Usually associated with the Virgin Mary or the Lady of popular romance, it appeared in myriad literar…
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…