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Through his many books and in the Horticulturist, the nation's first journal about landscape gardening, Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-1852) promoted a naturalistic style of landscape design as the "modern" alternative to the classical geometry of the "ancient" gardens of Italy and France. In this compelling biography, David Schuyler explores Downing's efforts to adapt English aesthetic principles to American climate and republican social institutions, delving the implicit complications of class in his prescriptions for American society.
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DAVID SCHUYLER (1950-2020) is professor of American studies at Franklin and Marshall College. He is author of Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820-1909; The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America; and A City Transformed: Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1940-1980. He has served as coeditor of several volumes of the The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted.
