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Literature and the Renaissance Garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II - England's Paradise (Paperback)
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Literature and the Renaissance Garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II - England's Paradise (Paperback)
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Spanning the period from Elizabeth I's reign to Charles II's
restoration, this study argues the garden is a primary site
evincing a progressive narrative of change, a narrative that looks
to the Edenic as obtainable ideal in court politics, economic
prosperity, and national identity in early modern England. In the
first part of the study, Amy L. Tigner traces the conceptual forms
that the paradise imaginary takes in works by Gascoigne, Spenser,
and Shakespeare, all of whom depict the garden as a space in which
to imagine the national body of England and the gendered body of
the monarch. In the concluding chapters, she discusses the function
of gardens in the literary works by Jonson, an anonymous masque
playwright, and Milton, the herbals of John Gerard and John
Parkinson, and the tract writing of Ralph Austen, Lawrence Beal,
and Walter Blithe. In these texts, the paradise imaginary is less
about the body politic of the monarch and more about colonial
pursuits and pressing environmental issues. As Tigner identifies,
during this period literary representations of gardens become
potent discursive models that both inspire constructions of their
aesthetic principles and reflect innovations in horticulture and
garden technology. Further, the development of the botanical garden
ushers in a new world of science and exploration. With the
importation of a new world of plants, the garden emerges as a locus
of scientific study: hybridization, medical investigation, and the
proliferation of new ornamentals and aliments. In this way, the
garden functions as a means to understand and possess the rapidly
expanding globe.
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