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Author Atkinson, Jennifer Wren, author.

Title Gardenland : nature, fantasy, and everyday practice / Jennifer Wren Atkinson
Published Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2018]

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Contents 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
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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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
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Subjects & Themes -- Nature.
Agriculture in literature
Agriculture -- Social aspects
American literature
Environmental literature
Environmentalism in literature
Gardening in literature
Gardens in literature
Horticultural literature
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780820353180
0820353183
Other Titles Nature, fantasy, and everyday practice