American garden writing: a fantasy genre of everyday life
JENNIFER WREN ATKINSON is associate professor of American literature and environmental studies at the University of Washington, Bothell.
Jennifer Wren Atkinson looks at the unique role that gardening
plays in American culture and history by exploring garden
literature over the past 150 years. She delves into a diverse range
of works: down-to-earth manuals and seed catalogs, accounts of
enslaved people, literary fiction and nonfiction and even science
fiction.
*Smithsonian Magazine*
One person’s garden may represent something very different to
another, which is one reason this book is such an important read.
Gardens reflect society, in all its inequality and irony. . . .
[A]n important addition to any garden writing library.
*EcoLit Books*
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