Landscape and Empire, 1770-2000

Gardens and planting, architecture, ruins, and the sublime force of nature weave their way through these 12 essays, but the contributing scholars of literature from England, the US, Ireland, and Scotland ground their studies in the historical and geographical realities of empire. Among their topics are the creation of modern New Zealand; the figure of ruin in early 19th-century Irish poetry; Dominica and the landscape of the new imperialism; landscape and the foreigner within in Katherine Mansfield and Emily Carr; Mau Mau, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and gender; and an eco-critical approach to the garden and resistance in diasporic literature. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR