Wasteland: A History

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BOOKWasteland: A HistoryVittoria Di Palma https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00222 Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20675Copy In Wasteland, Vittoria Di Palma takes on the "anti-picturesque," offering an account of landscapes that have traditionally drawn fear and contempt. Di Palma argues that a convergence of beliefs, technologies, institutions, and individuals in 18th-century England resulted in the formulation of cultural attitudes that continue to shape the ways we evaluate landscape today. Staking claims on the aesthetics of disgust, she addresses how emotional response has been central to the development of ideas about nature, beauty, and sublimity. With striking illustrations reaching back to the 1600s—husbandry manuals, radical pamphlets, gardening treatises, maps, and landscape paintings—Wasteland spans the fields of landscape studies, art and architectural history, geography, history, and the history of science and technology. In stirring prose, Di Palma tackles our conceptions of such hostile territories as swamps, mountains, and forests, arguing that they are united not by any essential physical characteristics but by the aversive reactions they inspire.*This eBook is available exclusively on the A&AePortal*AuthorVittoria Di PalmaPublisherYale University PressPrint publication date August 2014 (in print)Print ISBN 9780300197792EISBN 9780300259711Copyright© 2014 by Vittoria Di PalmaIllustrations 107Print Status in print Publisher (in print) WorldCat Google Books

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