The Green Fuse
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The Green Fuse

Essays in Making Sense of Gardens

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eBook - ePub

The Green Fuse

Essays in Making Sense of Gardens

About this book

Why do interiors of houses mimic nature – the wallpapers and curtains, flowers in vases, a vaporizer in the bathroom? Why do we so often connect our childhoods with gardens? Why has the myth of a lost Eden been so ubiquitous and so formative?
The Green Fuse: Essays in Making Sense of Gardens explores our deep-rooted impulses to create gardens, examining them through the lenses of history, religion, nostalgia and myth. It connects gardens with the other arts – painting, music, literature and theatre – and contemplates their intellectual and philosophical significance. Blending lyrical reflections with research, it offers an unusually wide-ranging and thoughtful perspective on gardens and why we make them. It will be ideal for all readers interested in gardening and its cultural implications.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 Mazes and Labyrinths
  8. 2 Gardens and Time
  9. 3 The Garden as Theatre
  10. 4 INTERLUDE: Ilnacullin, County Cork, Ireland
  11. 5 The Green Chapel
  12. 6 INTERLUDE: St Mary’s Churchyard, Mundon, Essex
  13. 7 The Green Study
  14. 8 INTERLUDE: Green Thoughts
  15. 9 Garden Follies
  16. 10 INTERLUDE: Some Favourite Follies
  17. 11 The Garden of England
  18. 12 Gardens and Painting
  19. 13 INTERLUDE: Essex and Suffolk, Giverny and Arles
  20. 14 Gardens and Music
  21. 15 Walls, Hedges and Fencing with Ourselves
  22. 16 INTERLUDE: Two Gardens Enclosed
  23. 17 The Garden Party
  24. 18 Peter and Pan
  25. References
  26. Acknowledgements
  27. Photo Acknowledgements
  28. Index