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26 novembre 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.pufc.9118
- isbn: 9782848675305
- eisbn: 9782848677491
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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environnement littérature nature société industrielle environment literature industrial society nature Literature, British Isles LIT004120 DSBSujets proches
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David I. A. Steel, « Recreating an Ideal Landscape: a Community’s Approach to the Designed Landscape of Cally », Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, ID : 10.4000/books.pufc.9118
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In reaction to the formality of seventeenth century garden design a peculiarly British style developed in the eighteenth century, whereby the landscape round many great houses was reshaped to suggest an ideal natural setting. As the garden designer Humphrey Repton put it: ‘The whole art of landscape gardening may properly be defined, the pleasing combination of art and nature adapted to the use of man.’ The work of William Kent, Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown and others in England was soon being...