America’s Romance with the English Garden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook America’s Romance with the English Garden write by Thomas J. Mickey. This book was released on 2013-04-17. America’s Romance with the English Garden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Named one of “the year’s best gardening books” by The Spectator (UK, Nov. 2014) The 1890s saw a revolution in advertising. Cheap paper, faster printing, rural mail delivery, railroad shipping, and chromolithography combined to pave the way for the first modern, mass-produced catalogs. The most prominent of these, reaching American households by the thousands, were seed and nursery catalogs with beautiful pictures of middle-class homes surrounded by sprawling lawns, exotic plants, and the latest garden accessories—in other words, the quintessential English-style garden. America’s Romance with the English Garden is the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of savvy businessmen and a growing American middle class eager to buy their products. It’s also the story of the beginnings of the modern garden industry, which seduced the masses with its images and fixed the English garden in the mind of the American consumer. Seed and nursery catalogs delivered aspirational images to front doorsteps from California to Maine, and the English garden became the look of America.
Gardenland
Gardenland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gardenland write by Jennifer Wren Atkinson. This book was released on 2018-08-01. Gardenland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In exploring the hidden landscape of desire in American gardens, 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.
Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction
Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction write by Margarida Cadima. This book was released on 2023-07-11. Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. American novelist Edith Wharton (1862–1937) is best known today for her tales of the city and the experiences of patrician New Yorkers in the “Gilded Age.” This book pushes against the grain of critical orthodoxy by prioritizing other “species of spaces” in Wharton’s work. For example, how do Wharton’s narratives represent the organic profusion of external nature? Does the current scholarly fascination with the environmental humanities reveal previously unexamined or overlooked facets of Wharton’s craft? I propose that what is most striking about her narrative practice is how she utilizes, adapts, and translates pastoral tropes, conventions, and concerns to twentieth-century American actualities. It is no accident that Wharton portrays characters returning to, or exploring, various natural localities, such as private gardens, public parks, chic mountain resorts, monumental ruins, or country-estate “follies.” Such encounters and adventures prompt us to imagine new relationships with various geographies and the lifeforms that can be found there. The book addresses a knowledge gap in Wharton and the environmental humanities, especially recent debates in ecocriticism. The excavation of Wharton's words and the background of her narratives with an eye to offering an ecocritical reading of her work is what the book focuses on.
The American Flower Garden
The American Flower Garden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American Flower Garden write by Neltje Blanchan. This book was released on 1913. The American Flower Garden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
All the Presidents' Gardens
All the Presidents' Gardens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All the Presidents' Gardens write by Marta McDowell. This book was released on 2016-04-27. All the Presidents' Gardens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times Bestseller and AHS Book Award winner The 18-acres surrounding the White House have been an unwitting witness to history—kings and queens have dined there, bills and treaties have been signed, and presidents have landed and retreated. Throughout it all, the grounds have remained not only beautiful, but also a powerful reflection of American trends. In All the Presidents' Gardens bestselling author Marta McDowell tells the untold history of the White House Grounds with historical and contemporary photographs, vintage seeds catalogs, and rare glimpses into Presidential pastimes. History buffs will revel in the fascinating tidbits about Lincoln’s goats, Ike's putting green, Jackie's iconic roses, and Amy Carter's tree house. Gardeners will enjoy the information on the plants whose favor has come and gone over the years and the gardeners who have been responsible for it all.
