Author | Liu Yu 劉豫 |
Place | Columbia, SC |
Publisher | University of South Carolina Press |
Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
Edition | |
Language | English |
Type | Book |
Series | |
Shelf | Hallway Cases |
Call Number | PR129.C6 L58 2008 |
Description | x, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Note | Seeds of a different Eden : Chinese gardening ideas and a new English aesthetic ideal / Yu Liu. Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-200) and index. Name discrepancy: Liu Yu 劉豫 is used in SWCRJ no.33, while LC auth. rec. gives Liu Yu with two different "yu" characters: 劉宇 and 劉瑜], and date 1955- Introduction : Beyond Walpole and Chinoiserie -- The impetus for change : Chinese Sharawadgi and English horticultural naturalism -- The ambiguous contrast : the Oriental Tian (Heaven) and the Occidental Zhu (Deus) -- In the name of the ancients : Alexander Pope's iconoclastic georgic -- Landscape and freedom : Joseph Addison's affinity with nature -- The call of the wild : Shaftesbury's revolution of aesthetics and ethics -- The paradigmatic shift : the far eastern influence on western modernity. |
ISBN | 1570037698 ; 9781570037696 |
LCCN | 2008024035 |