{"product_id":"the-pleasure-garden-from-vauxhall-to-coney-island-hardback-9780812244380","title":"The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island (Hardback) 9780812244380","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJonathan Conlin (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812244380\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 January 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages, 73 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.656 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This volume will be a welcome addition to our knowledge of the cultural history of gardens as entertainment centers, not least in terms of the significant shift in the perception of gardens from private, exclusive spaces to public spaces shadowed with anxieties about class, ethnicity, and gender.\" (Richard Allen Cave, Royal Holloway, University of London)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummers at the Vauxhall pleasure garden in London brought diverse entertainments to a diverse public. Picturesque walks and arbors offered a pastoral retreat from the city, while at the same time the garden's attractions indulged distinctly urban tastes for fashion, novelty, and sociability. High- and low-born alike were free to walk the paths; the proximity to strangers and the danger of dark walks were as thrilling to visitors as the fountains and fireworks. Vauxhall was the venue that made the careers of composers, inspired novelists, and showcased the work of artists. Scoundrels, sudden downpours, and extortionate ham prices notwithstanding, Vauxhall became a must-see destination for both Londoners and tourists. Before long, there were Vauxhalls across Britain and America, from York to New York, Norwich to New Orleans.\u003cbr\u003e This edited volume provides the first book-length study of 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. Nine essays explore the mutual influences of human behavior and design: landscape, painting, sculpture, and even transient elements such as lighting and music tacitly informed visitors how to move within the space, what to wear, how to behave, and where they might transgress. \u003ci\u003eThe Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island\u003c\/i\u003e draws together the work of musicologists, art historians, and scholars of urban studies and landscape design to unfold a cultural history of pleasure gardens, from the entertainments they offered to the anxieties of social difference they provoked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Jonathan Conlin 1\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Theaters of Hospitality: The Forms and Uses of Private Landscapes and Public Gardens\u003cbr\u003e John Dixon Hunt 29\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Pleasure Gardens and Urban Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Peter Borsay 49\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Guns in the Gardens: Peter Monamy's Paintings for Vauxhall\u003cbr\u003e Eleanor Hughes 78\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Performance Alfresco: Music-Making in London's Pleasure Gardens\u003cbr\u003e Rachel Cowgill 100\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Pleasure Gardens of America: Anxieties of National Identity\u003cbr\u003e Naomi Stubbs 127\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Pleasure Gardens in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: ''Useful for All Classes of Society''\u003cbr\u003e Lake Douglas 150\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Night and Day: Illusion and Carnivalesque at Vauxhall\u003cbr\u003e Deborah Epstein Nord 177\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. ''Strange Beauty in the Night'': Whistler's Nocturnes of Cremorne Gardens\u003cbr\u003e Anne Koval 195\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Edwardian Amusement Parks: The Pleasure Garden Reborn?\u003cbr\u003e Josephine Kane 217\u003cbr\u003e Notes 247\u003cbr\u003e Select Bibliography 299\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors 303\u003cbr\u003e Index 307\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 315\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52693087355160,"sku":"9780812244380","price":53.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-pleasure-garden-from-vauxhall-to-coney-island-hardback-9780812244380","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}