EcoGothic Gardens in the Long Nineteenth Century: Phantoms, Fantasy and Uncanny Flowers

236 Pages·2020·9.01 MB·English

by  Sue Edney

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EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century

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EcoGothic gardens in the long
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Edited by Sue Edney
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Manchester University Press
Copyright © Manchester University Press 2020
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Cover: John Atkinson Grimshaw,
October Afterglow, 1885. Oil on canvas,
77 by 63.5cm, 30¼ by 25in
Typeset
by New Best-set Typesetters Ltd
Contents

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e List of figures p. vii
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List of contributors x
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an di John Ruskin’s garden at Brantwood – Caroline Ikin 32
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d o exegesis in Algernon Blackwood’s ‘The Lost Valley’ and
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wnl ille ‘The Man who Went too Far’ by E. F. Benson and ‘The Man
os whom the Trees Loved’ by Algernon Blackwood – Ruth Heholt 82
Dit i 6 Darwin’s plants and Darwin’s gardens: Sex, sensation and natural
selection – Jonathan Smith 99
7 ‘Tentacular thinking’ and the ‘abcanny’ in Hawthorne’s Gothic
gardens of masculine egotism – Shelley Saguaro 114
8 Green is the new black: Plant monsters as ecoGothic tropes;
vampires and femmes fatales – Teresa Fitzpatrick 130
9 Death and the fairy: Hidden gardens and the haunting of
childhood – Francesca Bihet 148
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10 Presence and absence in Tennyson’s gardens of grief: ‘Mariana’,
Maud and Somersby – Sue Edney 166
11 Blackwater Park and the haunting of Wilkie Collins’s The Woman
in White – Adrian Tait 184
Afterword: Z Vesper, the Wilderness Garden, Powis Castle –
Paul Evans 199

d Index 213
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Figures

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an di 4 ‘Ruskin’s Moorland Garden’, W. G. Collingwood. 1903. Ruskin
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wnl ille Everett Millais (1829–96). Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool 55
os 7 Tailpiece to ‘The Transfer’, Algernon Blackwood. 1912. Pan’s
Dit i Garden: A Volume of Nature Stories (London: Macmillan).
Drawing, W. Graham Robertson (1866–1948) 72
8 ‘A couple pose seated in a shaded corner of a back garden in
Cobham, Norfolk. They are surrounded with climbing plants
and a well-kept lawn’ (c. 1910). Photograph, collection no:
2014.001. The Garden Museum 2019 84
9 ‘The Man whom the Trees Loved’, frontispiece to Algernon
Blackwood. 1912. Pan’s Garden: A Volume of Nature Stories
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(London: Macmillan). Drawing, W. Graham Robertson
(1866–1948) 91
10 ‘The House of Charles Darwin (Down House) in Kent’. Wood
engraving, J. R. Brown (active 1874–90). Wellcome Collection 100
11 ‘Down House Hothouse’. Engraving from Century Illustrated
Monthly Magazine, 25. 3 (1883): 423. William L. Clements
Library, University of Michigan 109
12 Padua Botanical Garden (Orto dei Semplici), with Saint

d Anthony Basilica (1545). Unknown, reprinted in Roberto De
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an di 17 ‘The Fairy Queen Takes an Airy Drive in a Light Carriage, a
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wnl ille Garden (London: William Heinemann). Illustration by
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Dit i 19 Frontispiece to Robert Louis Stevenson. 1909. A Child’s
Garden of Verses (London: John Lane). Illustration by Charles
Robinson (1870–1937) 161
20 Tennyson’s rhododendrons at Farringford, Isle of Wight.
Photograph, Sue Edney (2010) © 2019 Sue Edney 174
21 ‘There has fallen a splendid tear / From the passion flower at
the gate’. Albumen print. Sitter is Mary Ann Hillier. Alfred,
Lord Tennyson. 1875. Idylls of the King and Other Poems
Figures ix
(London: Henry S. King). Illustrated with photographs by
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–79) 180
22 ‘At the Park Gate’ (1878). Oil on canvas, John Atkinson
Grimshaw (1836–93). Private collection 186
23 ‘Schoonoord Historical Garden’, Rotterdam. Nineteenth-
century ‘English’ garden created from eighteenth-century
reclaimed water meadow. © 2019 Atlas Obscura 192
24 The Lady’s Bath, the Wilderness Garden, Powis Castle. ©

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