[Milton-L] Milton and Gardens

[JD Fleming]

Louis, my article "Meanwhile, Medusa" (in ELH some years ago) has a bunch of stuff on gardens and garden theory in it, including references. (I guess this offers yet another pun on "plug.") yrs, JD Fleming

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hannibal Hamlin" <hamlin.hannibal at gmail.com>
To: "John Milton Discussion List" <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:59:09 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [Milton-L] Milton and Gardens



You might also want to think about this topic by way of Genesis 1-3, which was of course a preoccupation of Milton's, but which also greatly influenced thinking on gardens and horticulture. There is an armful (at least) of books on Milton and Genesis. On gardens in particular, which I happen to have been reading about recently, see Terry Comito's The Idea of the Garden in the Renaissance , and Rebecca Bushnell's Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens . These are about earlier gardens, of course, but would be useful on where Milton is coming from (rather than where others are taking him). James Turner's The Politics of Landscape is also important. 

Hannibal 

  
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Joshua Scodel < jscodel at uchicago.edu > wrote: 



Dear Louis, 


I think John Dixon Hunt is your man:  lots of books and articles on the 18th-century landscape gardening, including one in Milton Studies specifically on Milton's influence. 


Best, 


Josh 





On Jun 18, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Schwartz, Louis wrote: 






To the list: 

  

I have a colleague over in the Philosophy Dept. who is doing some work on the aesthetics of the landscape, and as you can imagine has been coming across many references to Milton, especially in respect to the 18 th Century.  Since I haven’t done much thinking or work on the subject, I was hoping the list might offer some suggestions about what to read on Milton and the development of landscape painting and gardening or landscaping in the 18 th Century and after. 

  

Thanks in advance! 

  

Louis 

  

=========================== 

Louis Schwartz 

Associate Professor of English 

University of Richmond 

Richmond, VA  23173 

(804) 289-8315 

lschwart at richmond.edu 

  

  

  _______________________________________________ 
Milton-L mailing list 
Milton-L at lists.richmond.edu 
Manage your list membership and access list archives at http://lists.richmond.edu/mailman/listinfo/milton-l 

Milton-L web site: http://johnmilton.org/ 



Joshua Scodel 
Chair, Department of Comparative Literature 
Helen A. Regenstein Professor in Comparative Literature, English, and the College 
Resident Master, Burton-Judson Courts 
University of Chicago 
office:  Classics 402 
phone:  773-702-5101 




_______________________________________________ 
Milton-L mailing list 
Milton-L at lists.richmond.edu 
Manage your list membership and access list archives at http://lists.richmond.edu/mailman/listinfo/milton-l 

Milton-L web site: http://johnmilton.org/ 




-- 
Hannibal Hamlin 
Associate Professor of English 
The Ohio State University 
164 West 17th Ave., 421 Denney Hall 
Columbus, OH 43210-1340 
hamlin.22 at osu.edu/ 
hamlin.hannibal at gmail.com 

_______________________________________________
Milton-L mailing list
Milton-L at lists.richmond.edu
Manage your list membership and access list archives at http://lists.richmond.edu/mailman/listinfo/milton-l

Milton-L web site: http://johnmilton.org/

-- 
James Dougal Fleming
Associate Professor
Department of English
Simon Fraser University

"das Fragwuerdige zu sehen"