Engels | 30-05-2024 | 320 pagina's
9781529066678
Hardback
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In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work drew her into an exhilarating investigation of paradise and its long association with gardens. Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton’s Paradise Lost to John Clare’s enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth.
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In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work drew her into an exhilarating investigation of paradise and its long association with gardens. Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton’s Paradise Lost to John Clare’s enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth.
But the story of the g
EAN : | 9781529066678 |
Uitgever : | Palgrave Macmillan |
Publicatie datum : | 30-05-2024 |
Uitvoering : | Hardback |
Taal/Talen : | Engels |
Status : | Geen voorraad bij distributeur |
Aantal pagina's : | 320 |
Keywords : | tuinen |