<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article sketches the cultural significance that garden manuals had in England, from exemplifying a pleasurable and an aesthetic activity to encouraging the setting up of a profitable business. By investigating gardening manuals and treatises from the period, this study argues that eighteenth-century gardening manuals played an important role in shaping the cultural meanings of English gardens, in conveying “a practical knowledge of gardening, to gentlemen and young professors, who delight in that useful and agreeable study” (Abercrombie, The Preface, 1767) and in producing an original type of discourse which was employed to describe and represent the newly created professions.</p></abstract>

This article sketches the cultural significance that garden manuals had in England, from exemplifying a pleasurable and an aesthetic activity to encouraging the setting up of a profitable business. By investigating gardening manuals and treatises from the period, this study argues that eighteenth-century gardening manuals played an important role in shaping the cultural meanings of English gardens, in conveying “a practical knowledge of gardening, to gentlemen and young professors, who delight in that useful and agreeable study” (Abercrombie, The Preface, 1767) and in producing an original type of discourse which was employed to describe and represent the newly created professions.

Eighteenth-Century Garden Manuals: Old Practice, New Professions

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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This article sketches the cultural significance that garden manuals had in England, from exemplifying a pleasurable and an aesthetic activity to encouraging...

Eighteenth-Century Garden Manuals: Old Practice, New Professions

Published Online: Dec 30, 2016

Page range: 69 - 78

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2016-0010

Keywords
eighteenth-century garden manuals, new professions, paradigm shift, profitable business, readership, utilitarian and aesthetic functions

© 2016 Romanian Journal of English Studies

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Eighteenth-Century Garden Manuals: Old Practice, New Professions

Published Online: Dec 30, 2016

Page range: 69 - 78

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2016-0010

Keywordseighteenth-century garden manuals, new professions, paradigm shift, profitable business, readership, utilitarian and aesthetic functions

© 2016 Romanian Journal of English Studies

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
eighteenth-century garden manuals, new professions, paradigm shift, profitable business, readership, utilitarian and aesthetic functions