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In The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan develops a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, arguing that the monster was a key figure in Renaissance culture and that the incorporation of the monstrous into gardens was not incidental but an essential feature.

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Introduction: Reframing the Renaissance Garden
Chapter 1. The Legibility of Landscape: From Fascism to Foucault
Chapter 2. The Grotesque and the Monstrous
Chapter 3. A Monstruary: The Excessive, the Deficient, and the Hybrid
Chapter 4. "Rare and Enormous Bones of Huge Animals": The Colossal Mode
Chapter 5. "Pietra Morta, in Pietra Viva": The Sacro Bosco
Conclusion: Toward the Sublime
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

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      Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
      Publication Date: 29/10/2015
      ISBN13: 9780812247558, 978-0812247558
      ISBN10: 0812247558
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan develops a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, arguing that the monster was a key figure in Renaissance culture and that the incorporation of the monstrous into gardens was not incidental but an essential feature.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Reframing the Renaissance Garden
      Chapter 1. The Legibility of Landscape: From Fascism to Foucault
      Chapter 2. The Grotesque and the Monstrous
      Chapter 3. A Monstruary: The Excessive, the Deficient, and the Hybrid
      Chapter 4. "Rare and Enormous Bones of Huge Animals": The Colossal Mode
      Chapter 5. "Pietra Morta, in Pietra Viva": The Sacro Bosco
      Conclusion: Toward the Sublime
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index
      Acknowledgments

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