An English Arcadia

by Harriet Ritvo, Therese O'Malley

The essays in this volume were presented at the symposium 'An English Landscape and Architecture in Britain and America', held at the Huntington on 26 and 27 October 1991. At the Edge of the Nature and Domestication in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Britain; Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century English Landscape Garden; Appropriation and Early Gardening Literature in America; Love and Death across an English Constable's Paintings of His Family's Flower and Kitchen Gardens; Politics and the English Landscape since the First World War; The Case Study of Stowe; Discoveries, Challenges, and Moral Dilemmas in the Restoration of the Garden Building at Stowe; The Park and Garden Survey at The Replanting and Restoration of the Historical Landscape.

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Published January 1, 1993

About the author

Harriet Ritvo is an American historian who specializes in British history, particularly environmental history and the history of natural history.