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Women, Literature, and the Domesticated Landscape: England's Disciples of Flora, 1780-1870

Women, Literature, and the Domesticated Landscape: England's Disciples of Flora, 1780-1870

Page, Judith W.
Smith, Elise L.

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu, Book 76

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521768659
ISBN13: 9780521768658
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 27 2011
Pages: 338
Weight: 1.80
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.80
Language: English
Combining an analysis of literature and art, this book contends that the 'domesticated landscape' is key to understanding women's complex negotiation of private and public life in a period of revolution and transition. As more women became engaged in horticultural and botanical pursuits, the meaning of gardens - recognized here both as sites of pleasure and labor, and as conceptual and symbolic spaces - became more complex. Women writers and artists often used gardens to educate their readers, to enter into political and cultural debates, and to signal moments of intellectual and spiritual insight. Gardens functioned as a protected vantage point for women, providing them with a new language and authority to negotiate between domestic space and the larger world. Although this more expansive form of domesticity still highlighted the virtues associated with the feminized home, it also promised a wider field of action, re-centering domesticity outward.

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