Gardenland : nature, fantasy, and everyday practice /

Garden writing is not just a place to find advice about roses and rutabagas. It also contains hidden histories of desire, hope and frustration and tells a story about how Americans have invested grand fantasies in the common soil of everyday life. Gardenland chronicles the development of this genre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Atkinson, Jennifer Wren (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2018]
Subjects:	American literature > History and criticism. Gardens in literature. Gardening in literature. Agriculture in literature. Environmentalism in literature. Agriculture > Social aspects. Horticultural literature > United States > History. Environmental literature > United States > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. "Gardens of the mind": planting the seeds of an American fantasy genre
American garden writing and the reinvention of work as play
Lost at home: mapping the industrial-era garden and farm
Resensualizing the garden: from surface to substance in midcentury food writing
Against the grain: reinventing the garden in contemporary utopia
Just gardens: uprooting and recovery in the postcolonial garden
Epilogue. Garden writing and the phenomenology of dirt.