![]() | Gardenland Subjects: Environmental literature; Horticultural literature; Agriculture; Environmentalism in literature.; Agriculture in literature.; Gardening in literature.; Gardens in literature.; American literature; Garden writing is not just a place to find advice about roses and rutabagas; it also contains hidden histories of desire, hope, and frustration and tells a story about how Americans have invested grand fantasies in the common soil of everyday life. Gardenland chronicles the development of this genre across key moments in American literature and history, from nineteenth-century industrialization and urbanization to the twentieth-century rise of factory farming and environmental advocacy to contemporary debates about public space and social justice--even to the consideration of the future of humanity's place on earth. JENNIFER WREN ATKINSON is associate professor of American literature and environmental studies at the University of Washington, Bothell. |
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