On Other Grounds

Brigitte Weltman-Aron is Assistant Professor of French at The University of Memphis.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: The Seeds of Discord 1. Natural NatureTransitions or Simultaneity: A Political and Philosophical QuestionProblematizing "Transitions": Landscape GardeningClassicism in Quotation Marks: An IterationTransitions: A ReturnThe French against the French StyleWhat Makes Nature NaturalThe Exemplarity of WaterRepeating the English: A Rhetorical Graft 2. National NatureEnglish Resistances to the FrenchFrench Reactions: Defending Le NotreFrench Reactions: Against Le Notre and the English StyleDeferring the "Point of Perfection": The New French Garden (Natural Gardens)Nationalism in GardensNature as Liberty in English TreatisesNature as Liberty in French Treatises 3. Trade WindsAnglophobiaEuropean Colonialism: Raynal's Histoire des deux IndesCanada and Guiana in Raynal's Histoire des deux IndesCommunication: Alterity in RaynalCommunication: Diderot's Savages and CivilizedCommunication: Of the Deaf-Mute 4. Philosophical GardensColonizing SpaceScopophiliaDescartes and LockeRepetition and Displacement: CondillacCondillacian Effects: AttentionCondillacian Effects: Imagination, Memory, ReminiscencePhilosophical Gardens Conclusion: The Future of the Garden/The Garden of the FutureThe Garden in Movement in the History of Landscape GardeningThe Andre Citroen Park: "Sharing the Signature"Garden without Man Notes Bibliography Index

"Eighteenth-century scholars have long recognized the importance of gardens in the development of the century's sensibility. Weltman-Aron's contribution to this important issue is considerable. Many of the primary texts she examines have not been treated in such detail, and the parallels she draws between philosophical, political, and aesthetic texts of the period are highly original and instructive. This is a valuable and highly thoughtful work of careful and informed scholarship that makes key contributions to our understanding of eighteenth-century thought and culture." — Ronald Bogue, University of Georgia"Stylish, rigorous, and witty. If only there were more adventurous studies of this kind, and so well written—a significant intervention in the consideration of nationalism as well as an equally significant departure from conventional approaches to the subject." — Julian Wolfreys, author of Being English: Narratives, Idioms, and Performances of National Identity from Coleridge to Trollope