Literature and the Renaissance Garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II
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Arum Maculatum
Author_Amy L. Tigner
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Book III
Botanical Gardens
botanical science
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colonial plant exchange
conclusus
De Caus
duquesne
early modern literature
Elmo's Fire
Elmo’s Fire
environmental humanities
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Estate Gardens
Faerie Queene
garden symbolism
Giardino Segreto
horticultural history
hortus
Hortus Conclusus
imaginary
literary representations of gardens
Marian Garden
Medieval Hortus Conclusus
paradise
Paradise Imaginary
Paradise Lost
Paradisus Terrestris
Parkinson's Paradisi
Parkinson’s Paradisi
press
Prospero's Masque
Prospero’s Masque
Queen's Body
queens
Queen’s Body
Renaissance Garden
Richard II
Salomon De Caus
Spenser's Garden
spensers
Spenser’s Garden
university
Untended Garden
Unweeded Garden
Wild Man
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781409436744
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Spanning the period from Elizabeth I's reign to Charles II's restoration, this study argues the garden is a primary site evincing a progressive narrative of change, a narrative that looks to the Edenic as obtainable ideal in court politics, economic prosperity, and national identity in early modern England. In the first part of the study, Amy L. Tigner traces the conceptual forms that the paradise imaginary takes in works by Gascoigne, Spenser, and Shakespeare, all of whom depict the garden as a space in which to imagine the national body of England and the gendered body of the monarch. In the concluding chapters, she discusses the function of gardens in the literary works by Jonson, an anonymous masque playwright, and Milton, the herbals of John Gerard and John Parkinson, and the tract writing of Ralph Austen, Lawrence Beal, and Walter Blithe. In these texts, the paradise imaginary is less about the body politic of the monarch and more about colonial pursuits and pressing environmental issues. As Tigner identifies, during this period literary representations of gardens become potent discursive models that both inspire constructions of their aesthetic principles and reflect innovations in horticulture and garden technology. Further, the development of the botanical garden ushers in a new world of science and exploration. With the importation of a new world of plants, the garden emerges as a locus of scientific study: hybridization, medical investigation, and the proliferation of new ornamentals and aliments. In this way, the garden functions as a means to understand and possess the rapidly expanding globe.
Amy L. Tigner is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas, Arlington and is the founding editor of Early Modern Studies Journal (formerly Early English Studies).
