Jonathan Bate: The Garden, Gebunden
The Garden
- Our Four-Thousand-Year Quest for Paradise
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- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 02/2027
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780593537060
- Item number:
- 12721265
- Volume:
- 592 Pages
- Weight:
- 844 g
- Format:
- 235 x 156 mm
- Thickness:
- 31 mm
- Release date:
- 9.2.2027
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Other releases of The Garden |
Price |
|---|---|
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 22.87* |
| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 34.56* |
Blurb
A globe-spanning, never-before-told epic history of the garden--from antiquity to present
Gardens have always been sacred spaces, allowing humans both to return to nature and to tame it. Avid gardener and literary historian Jonathan Bate traces our fascination with gardens across four millennia and explores their enduring influence on art, literature, philosophy, politics, and religion. Just as the Garden of Eden is central to the Judeo-Christian tradition, gardens are a major preoccupation for authors like Ovid, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Emily Dickinson, and have carried great significance for everyone from kings to monks.
Woven together with a magnificent portrait of our cultural obsession with the garden is an illuminating account of horticultural ingenuity, from the gardens of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia to the pleasure gardens of Versailles and public green spaces like Central Park. Along the way, Bate offers practical botanical insights: Why have certain rose growers preferred old varieties over new? What makes a weed a weed? And how do certain plants serve essential roles in maintaining a garden's health?
In this wide-ranging, exuberant, and richly illustrated work, Bate unearths a magnificent alternate human history, and reminds us that to cultivate a garden is to practice care: for the earth, for others, and for the fragile beauty that sustains us.
Biography
Jonathan Bate is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick. Among his many books are John Clare: A Biography (Farrar Straus Giroux), which won Britain's two oldest literary prizes, the Hawthomden and the James Tait Black, a best-selling book on Shakespeare for the general reader, The Genius of Shakespeare (Picador, UK and OUP, USA), and a major intellectual biography of Shakespeare in the cultural context of the Elizabethan Age (The Soul of the Age). He is also chief editor of The RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works (Macmillan UK/Random House Modern Library USA).
