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The pleasure garden : from Vauxhall to Coney Island / edited by Jonathan Conlin

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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Description
vi, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Conlin, Jonathan

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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Theaters of Hospitality: The Forms and Uses of Private Landscapes and Public Gardens / John Dixon Hunt -- ch. 2 Pleasure Gardens and Urban Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century / Peter Borsay -- ch. 3 Guns in the Gardens: Peter Monamy's Paintings for Vauxhall / Eleanor Hughes -- ch. 4 Performance Alfresco: Music-Making in London's Pleasure Gardens / Rachel Cowgill -- ch. 5 Pleasure Gardens of America: Anxieties of National Identity / Naomi Stubbs -- ch. 6 Pleasure Gardens in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: "Useful for All Classes of Society" / Lake Douglas -- ch. 7 Night and Day: Illusion and Carnivalesque at Vauxhall / Deborah Epstein Nord -- ch. 8 "Strange Beauty in the Night": Whistler's Nocturnes of Cremorne Gardens / Anne Koval -- ch. 9 Edwardian Amusement Parks: The Pleasure Garden Reborn? / Josephine Kane.
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ISBN
9780812244380 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0812244389 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-301) band index.
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