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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Jonathan Conlin Klappentext The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island 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. Zusammenfassung The Pleasure Garden! from Vauxhall to Coney Island 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Jonathan Conlin 1 Chapter 1. Theaters of Hospitality: The Forms and Uses of Private Landscapes and Public Gardens John Dixon Hunt 29 Chapter 2. Pleasure Gardens and Urban Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century Peter Borsay 49 Chapter 3. Guns in the Gardens: Peter Monamy's Paintings for Vauxhall Eleanor Hughes 78 Chapter 4. Performance Alfresco: Music-Making in London's Pleasure Gardens Rachel Cowgill 100 Chapter 5. Pleasure Gardens of America: Anxieties of National Identity Naomi Stubbs 127 Chapter 6. Pleasure Gardens in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: ''Useful for All Classes of Society'' Lake Douglas 150 Chapter 7. Night and Day: Illusion and Carnivalesque at Vauxhall Deborah Epstein Nord 177 Chapter 8. ''Strange Beauty in the Night'': Whistler's Nocturnes of Cremorne Gardens Anne Koval 195 Chapter 9. Edwardian Amusement Parks: The Pleasure Garden Reborn? Josephine Kane 217 Notes 247 Select Bibliography 299 List of Contributors 303 Index 307 Acknowledgments 315
