Publisher's Synopsis
The essays in this volume were presented at the symposium 'An English Arcadia: Landscape and Architecture in Britain and America', held at the Huntington on 26 and 27 October 1991. Contents: At the Edge of the Garden: Nature and Domestication in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Britain; Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century English Landscape Garden; Appropriation and Adaptation: Early Gardening Literature in America; Love and Death across an English Garden: Constable's Paintings of His Family's Flower and Kitchen Gardens; Politics and the English Landscape since the First World War; The Case Study of Stowe; Discoveries, Challenges, and Moral Dilemmas in the Restoration of the Garden Building at Stowe; The Park and Garden Survey at Stowe: The Replanting and Restoration of the Historical Landscape.
