Gender and the Garden in Early Modern English Literature

Download or read book Gender and the Garden in Early Modern English Literature written by Jennifer Munroe and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into early modern gardens, gender and writing, this study considers not only published literary representations of gardens, but also actual garden landscapes and unpublished evidence of everyday gardening practice. Jennifer Munroe here analyzes how writers appropriated the developing gendered tension in gardening that stemmed from a shift from the garden as a means of feeding a family, to the garden as an aesthetic object imbued with status.