The wildness pleases: The origins of Romanticism

• Autores: James Grantham Turner
• Localización: Studies in the history of gardens and designed landscape, ISSN 1460-1176, Vol. 5, Nº 2, 1985, págs. 207-212
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Christopher Thacker eludes the usual categories. He is a Europeanist who gives no allegiance to any European intellectual tradition, an academic who eschews footnotes and adopts a brisk, colloquial style ("dear chevaliers..., how d'you do it? ... the dreary Sartre"), and a garden historian sufficiently versed in literary and intellectual history to attempt a general study oftaste. We approach this account of the eighteenth-century cult of wildness, then, expecting a fresh and original work.