'Disciples of flora' : gardens in history and culture / edited by Victoria Emma Pagán, Judith W. Page and Brigitte Weltman-Aron.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
  • ©2015
Description
1 online resource (205 p.)

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'Disciples of Flora' explores, through a variety of approaches, disciplines, and historical periods, the place and vitality of gardens as cultural objects, repositories of meaning, and sites for the construction of identity and subjectivity; gardens being an eminent locus where culture and nature meet. This collection of essays contributes to a revision of histories of gardens by broadening the scope of scholarly inquiry to include a long history from ancient Rome to the present, in which contesting memories delineate new apprehensions of topography and space. The contributors draw attention t
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Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2016).
ISBN
1-4438-8131-7
OCLC
921217008
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