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