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First known date:
2001...
vol.
21
no.
2
Summer
2001
of
Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
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Contents
* Contents derived from the 2001 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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"I Have Built up a Little Garden" : The Vernacular Garden, National Identity and a Sense of Place,
single work
criticism
(p. 115-121)The author finds that "attention to the garden as an expression of identity has been slight ...discussion by cultural critics has focussed on the significance of the bush as the key to understanding Australian identity. In particular, the white man's ambivalent relationship to the bush.... In contrast focus of this article is on "the individual and cultural meanings that found expression through the garden and [war-time letters]" of Wifred Stephensen to her husband in internment camp in Sydney.
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Cultivating the Wilderness : The Orchard in the Australian Literary Imagination,
single work
criticism
(p. 122-126)Against the background of the orchard myth in Genesis, the author argues "that cultivated space, as an expression of settlement, presents issues of identity and place ... [and explores] how the orchard has been imagined in Australian literature" (p.122).
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