Colonizing nature : the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 /
Tobin, Beth Fowkes.
Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press,
c2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-249) and index.
Introduction : Troping the tropics and aestheticizing labor -- Tropical bounty, local knowledge, and the imperial georgic -- Provisional economies : slave gardens in the writings of British sojourners -- Land, labor, and the English garden conversation piece in India -- Picturesque ruins, decaying empires, and British imperial character in Hodges's Travels in India -- Seeing, writing, and revision : natural history discourse and Captain Cook's A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the world -- Domesticating the tropics : tropical flowerrs, botanical books, and the culture of collecting -- Epilogue : Decolonizing garden history.
English literature
Gardening
Gardening
Gardening in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Nature in literature.