Seeds of a different eden
Subtitle: Chinese gardening ideas and a new English aesthetic ideal
By: Yu Liu.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781570037696
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- Chinese influences; Gardens, Chinese -- England; Authors, English -- Aesthetics; Gardens -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Beyond Walpole and chinoiserie; title: The impetus for change : Chinese sharawadgi and English horticultural naturalism; title: The ambiguous contrast : the oriental tian (heaven) and the occidental zhu (deus); title: In the name of the ancients : Alexander Pope's iconoclastic georgic; title: Landscape and freedom : Joseph Addison's affinity with nature; title: The call of the wild : Shaftesbury's revolution of aesthetics and ethics; title: The paradigmatic shift : the far eastern influence on western modernity.