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Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as
"follies," from the nation's founding through the American
centennial celebration in 1876. In a period of increasing
nationalism, follies-such as temples, summerhouses, towers, and
ruins-brought a range of European architectural styles to the
United States. By imprinting the land with symbols of European
culture, landscape gardeners brought their idea of civilization to
the American wilderness. Kerry Dean Carso's interdisciplinary
approach in Follies in America examines both buildings and their
counterparts in literature and art, demonstrating that follies
provide a window into major themes in nineteenth-century American
culture, including tensions between Jeffersonian agrarianism and
urban life, the ascendancy of middle-class tourism, and gentility
and social class aspirations.
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