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The pleasure garden : from Vauxhall to Coney Island /
This book draws together the work of musicologists, art historians, and scholars of urban studies and landscape design to explore the attractions and interactions of the pleasure garden, from the opening of Vauxhall in the seventeenth century to the amusement parks of the early twentieth.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2013].
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Penn studies in landscape architecture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Conlin, Jonathan
- Theaters of Hospitality : The Forms and Uses of Private Landscapes and Public Gardens / Hunt, John Dixon
- Pleasure Gardens and Urban Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century / Borsay, Peter
- Guns in the Gardens : Peter Monamy's Paintings for Vauxhall / Hughes, Eleanor
- Performance Alfresco : Music-Making in London's Pleasure Gardens / Cowgill, Rachel
- Pleasure Gardens of America : Anxieties of National Identity / Stubbs, Naomi
- Pleasure Gardens in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans : ''Useful for All Classes of Society'' / Douglas, Lake
- Night and Day : Illusion and Carnivalesque at Vauxhall / Nord, Deborah Epstein
- ''Strange Beauty in the Night'' : Whistler's Nocturnes of Cremorne Gardens / Koval, Anne
- Edwardian Amusement Parks : The Pleasure Garden Reborn? / Kane, Josephine.