To Live in the New World: A. J. Downing and American Landscape Gardening. Judith K. Major

Isis ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-142
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
American Landscape ◽  
Landscape Gardening

Country and City in the American Romantic Suburb

1983 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Archer
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Urban Parks ◽  
Residential Environments ◽  
Important Development ◽  
American Landscape ◽  
History Of ◽  
Landscape Gardening

American romantic suburbs of the 1850s and 1860s have traditionally been considered the progeny of at least four prior phenomena: romantic cemetery planning, picturesquely landscaped urban parks in England, A. J. Downing's efforts to promote a consciously "rural" style of American landscape gardening, and a growing interest in family life and domesticity. But a variety of prototypes for American romantic suburbs already existed in England, not only in parks but also in resorts and metropolitan suburbs. Many of these were known to American travelers since the 1830s. The impetus for adopting such prototypes in America-and for developing indigenous, American suburban types-can be tied to an important development in the history of American ideas. During the 1840s and 1850s the long standing conflict between ideals of "country" and "city"-the conflict between agrarian gentility and mercantile progress, and also between rural independence and cultural sophistication-was at least partly resolved by suggestions that both could flourish together, if only the detrimental aspects of each could be avoided. There followed a variety of proposals for suburbs that, according to their proponents, would become superior residential environments by providing the amenities of both country and city while eliminating the disadvantages of each.

The American Landscape as Totem

Prospects ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 17-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myra Jehlen
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Virgin Land ◽  
American Landscape ◽  
The Subject ◽  
American Adam

The idea that America constituted anew world that fulfilled both the divine and the natural design has been the subject of numerous studies, including the classics Virgin Land by Henry Nash Smith and The American Adam by R. W. B. Lewis. I start from these but go back instead of forward: back, or down, in that my concern with the astonishing imaginative feat that translated a new country's rise into the discovery of a new world lies in the underlying form of this vision rather than in its particular features. With the interior of the landscape already well mapped, I would like to walk its perimeter.

Royalty in the New World

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kinahan Cornwallis
Keyword(s):  
New World

A Brave New World for Dementia Diagnosis

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (35) ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Richard Ferraro
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Dementia Diagnosis ◽  
Brave New World
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