{"product_id":"the-figure-in-the-landscape-9780801839368","title":"The Figure in the Landscape","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy means of a thorough reading of selected literary works, John Dixon Hunt traces the rise of the art of gardening in eighteenth-century England from a new point of view, its effect on the human mind... The Figure in the Landscape should hold the attention of any reader interested in the arts and the cultural context of literature. Eighteenth Century Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the First Edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Green Thoughts and Shades\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Hermits in Their Landscapes\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Old Hieroglyphic Landscape\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The New Empirical Landscape\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Marvell's Gardens\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Gardens of a New Model\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Landschips\u0026amp; Such Wilde Workes \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Borrowed from the Poets\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Tomorrow to Fresh Fields\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Gardening, and Poetry, and Pope\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Scenes for Contemplation\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Artful Wildness to Perplex\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. My Structures Rise, My Gardens Grow\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. Multiplied Scenes\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Public and Private Virtues\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. Professors of Gardening\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. The Ingenious and Descriptive Thomson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. The Varied God and Man's Continual Changes\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. The Finished Garden\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17. The Villas Shine\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18. The Mind's Creative Eye\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19. The More Enduring Song\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. The Landscape of the Bard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 20. Wild and British\u003cbr\u003eChapter 21. Furnishing the Mind's Apartments\u003cbr\u003eChapter 22. The Gentler Genius of the Plain\u003cbr\u003eChapter 23. Descriptive and Allegoric\u003cbr\u003eChapter 24. The Idiom of the Soil\u003cbr\u003eChapter 25. Night Thoughts\u003cbr\u003eChapter 26. Can Stow Such Raptures Raise?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V. The Landscape of Sensibility\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 27. Landscape Business\u003cbr\u003eChapter 28. Place-Making\u003cbr\u003eChapter 29. Prospects for Poetry\u003cbr\u003ePostscript\u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405183885655,"sku":"9780801839368","price":24.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801839368.jpg?v=1730489025","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-figure-in-the-landscape-9780801839368","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}