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From Eco-Politics to Apocalypse: The Contentious Rhetoric of Eighteenth-Century Landscape Gardening

Linguistic appropriation in effect operated tautologically: the landscape improvers and picturesque theorists sought not only to shape and define nature according to certain aesthetic protocols, but also to encourage an aesthetico-political order, an idea of what nature and nation should be, which could become a standard for judging what is and is not 'natural' in these two spheres. [...]we have, for example, Knight's critique of Repton's practice of levelling trees and shrubs in the creation of 'never-ending sheets of vapid lawn'--an aesthetic commentary that also raises the spectre of political levelling--and Repton's rejoinder, outlined in a 1794 letter to Price, that the system of picturesque embellishment fosters an ungovernable wildness unsuitable to the ideals of a constitutional monarchy, each playing on the idea (and preyingon the fear) that extreme policies in aesthetic/environmental practice reflect and encourage instability in the political realm as well.

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Article - Bài báo
Tác giả:
Poetzsch, Markus
Đề mục:
Literature
Nhà xuất bản:
Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research, ENCAP
Ngày xuất bản:
Winter 2009
Số trang/ tờ:
19
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Romantic Textualities; Cardiff, Issue 19, Winter 2009, Pages 21-34
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ISSN 1748-0116
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