Gender and the Garden in Early Modern English Literature

Gender and the Garden in Early Modern English Literature PDF Author: Jennifer Munroe
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754658269
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Book Description
An investigation into early modern gardens, gender and writing, this study considers not only published literary representations of gardens, but also actual garden landscapes and unpublished evidence of everyday gardening practice. Jennifer Munroe here analyzes how writers appropriated the developing gendered tension in gardening that stemmed from a shift from the garden as a means of feeding a family, to the garden as an aesthetic object imbued with status.