Polite Landscapes: Gardens and Society in Eighteenth-Century England

by Tom Williamson

Book Overview

Parks and gardens of eighteenth-century England are usually understood as the creations of individual geniuses like William kent, Capability Brown, and Humphry Repton. But this wasn't necessarily a view shared by their contemporaries. Landowners typically had strong ideas about how their property should look and how it should function. And, according to Tom Williamson, other powerful influences were at work as well. In Polite Landscapes Williamson...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801852056
• ISBN13: 9780801852053
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.1"