The pleasure garden, from vauxhall to coney island /
The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island draws together the work of musicologists, art historians, and scholars of urban studies and landscape design to explore the attractions and interactions of the pleasure garden, from the opening of Vauxhall in the seventeenth century to the amusement...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
Publication Dates: |
[2013] ©2013 |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Penn studies in landscape architecture. |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812207323 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9780812207323.jpg |
Summary: |
The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island draws together the work of musicologists, art historians, and scholars of urban studies and landscape design to explore the attractions and interactions of the pleasure garden, from the opening of Vauxhall in the seventeenth century to the amusement parks of the early twentieth. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliography: | 73 illus. |
ISBN: | 9780812207323 |
Index Number: | SB451 |
CLC: | TU986.6-09 |
Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Chapter 1. Theaters of Hospitality: The Forms and Uses of Private Landscapes and Public Gardens / Chapter 2. Pleasure Gardens and Urban Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century / Chapter 3. Guns in the Gardens: Peter Monamy s Paintings for Vauxhall / Chapter 4. Performance Alfresco: Music-Making in London s Pleasure Gardens / Chapter 5. Pleasure Gardens of America: Anxieties of National Identity / Chapter 6. Pleasure Gardens in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: Useful for All Classes of Society / Chapter 7. Night and Day: Illusion and Carnivalesque at Vauxhall / Chapter 8. Strange Beauty in the Night : Whistler s Nocturnes of Cremorne Gardens / Chapter 9. Edwardian Amusement Parks: The Pleasure Garden Reborn? / Notes -- Select Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |