Wasteland: A History

Di Palma, Vittoria

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Vittoria Di Palma

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00222

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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.

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Vittoria Di Palma

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date August 2014 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300197792

EISBN 9780300259711

Illustrations 107

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List of illustrations

Disdain, Contempt, and Disgust
A Digger Manifesto; An Appeal to the House of Commons
Map of The Pilgrim’s Progress
Frontispiece to The English Improver Improved
Shrewsbury and the River Severn
A Distant View of Hythe Village and Church, Kent
Plan of Earl Manvers’s Estate in Laxton and Moorhouse
Wooded Landscape with a Cottage and Shepherd
The Woodcutter’s Return
Peat Bog, Scotland
The Gravel Diggers
A Wooded Landscape with a Stream and a Fisherman
A Woman Gleaner
Winstanley
Winstanley
Wast Land’s Improvement
Frontispiece to Instauratio Magna
Plows
Machines for watering meadows and sowing corn
A Treatise of Fruit-Trees . . . Together with The Spirituall Use of an Orchard
Plan of a model farm
Frontispiece to Systema Agriculturæ
Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat, History of the Royal Society of London
Frontispiece to John Ogilby, Britannia
Map of route from Camarthen to Aberistwith
Britannia Depicta, or Ogilby Improv’d
Map of the route from Bagshot to Winchester
The Pilgrim’s Progress, jigsaw puzzle
Frontispiece to The Second Part of Systema Agriculturæ, or the Mistery of Husbandry & Vintetum Britanicum or Treatise of Cider
Frontispiece to Campania Fœlix: Or, A Discourse of the Benefits and Improvements of Husbandry
Claremont: View of the Amphitheatre and Lake
Draft enclosure map for Kilnsea, East Riding of Yorkshire
An Exact copy of A Plan of the Fenns as it was taken Anno 1604 by William Hayward
Guthlac arriving at Crowland
The South Prospect of the Conventuall Church of Croyland
A true report of certaine wonderfull overflowing of Waters, now lately in Summerset-shire, Norfolke, and other places of England [. . .]
A Mapp of the Great Levell, Representing it as it lay Drowned
A Map of the Great Levell Drayned
Map with drainage scheme
Plan for thirty-two farms on two thousand acres
Surveying instruments for draining the Fens, including a plain level, a water level, and a semicircle
Spades and plows for drainage works
Fish
Frontispiece to chapter on fowling
The Form of the Decoys in Lincolnshire
Duck Island in St. James’s Park
The North Prospect of Hampton Court, Herefordshire
A windmill
Windmills in the Fens
Drainage Mills in the Fens, Croyland, Lincolnshire
St. Benet’s Abbey
Map of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and Leicestershire
Chatsworth House being the seat of his Grace the Duke and Earl of Devonshire
Poole’s Hole
The Devil’s Arse
Frontispiece, The Sacred Theory of the Earth
The Flood and its effects
The South West Prospect of Thurston Water in Furness, Lancashire
A Prospect of the Rocks & that Salt Cavern in Castleton, Called Peak-Hole, alias the D-l's A-se
A Prospect in the upper part of Dove Dale, five miles north of Ashbourn
A View of the Peak: The Dove Holes
Landscape: Valley in Derbyshire
Gordal, at Malham in Craven, Yorkshire
A Map of the Caudebec Fells
Map of the Black Lead Mines &c. in Cumberland
A View of Darwentwater &c., From Crow-Park
A View of Derwentwater. Towards Borrowdale. A Lake near Keswick in Cumberland
The general idea of Keswick-lake
An explanation of the shapes and lines of mountains
Inside the Peak Cavern, Castleton, Derbyshire
Gordale Scar (A View of Gordale, in the Manor of East Malham in Craven, Yorkshire, the Property of Lord Ribblesdale)
Nulli penetrabilis
The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting
The antient Hunting Notes
Tools for grafting
Charcoal making in a forest
The Norway engine, or saw-mill, and a machine to bore elms
Designs for tree planting
Mr. Kirke’s Wood at Mosely, Yorkshire at Cookeridge
Designs for tree planting
Cashiobury the Seat of the Rt. Hon.ble the Earle of Essex in Hartfordshire
New Parke in Surry the Seat of the Rt. Hon.ble the Earle of Rochester
The Earl of Rochester’s House, New Park, Richmond, Surrey
Designs of Woods of Forrest trees
Grimsthorp Gardens 26 Jul. 1736
The Mannour of Paston
The Manor of Paston divided and planted into Rural Gardens
La Grand Manier
An Ideal Rural Garden
Wrest House & Parke in ye County of Bedford, the Seat of ye Rt. Hon.ble Henry Earl of Kent
Wrest House & Parke in ye County of Bedford, the Seat of ye Rt. Hon.ble Henry Earl of Kent
Wrest Park Estate Atlas, folio 3: Silsoe, Wrest Park
My Lady Duchess Square
Plan of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire
Trees as timber
Plan of a garden with wildernesses and groves
Cornard Wood, near Sudbury, Suffolk (Gainsborough’s Forest)
Manuscript page from Remarks on Forest Scenery
Manuscript page from Remarks on Forest Scenery
Park Scene with Boy
Manuscript page from Remarks on Forest Scenery
Vesuvius from Portici
Firework Display at the Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome (La Girandola)
Improvements
The Course of Empire: The Savage State
The Course of Empire: Desolation
Layout for The Course of Empire

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Vittoria Di Palma

Wasteland: A History

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Vittoria Di Palma

PublisherYale University Press

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~This book would never have come into being without the guidance, wisdom, and care of my teachers. My greatest debt is to Robin Middleton. Robin introduced me to the eighteenth century, shaped my ideas about it, and infused me with a love of its books. In the years since I first became his student, he has been a mentor, a staunch supporter, a generous reader, and a...

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Vittoria Di Palma

PublisherYale University Press

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The tiny island of Vieques lies about eight miles east of Puerto Rico, bordered to the north by the Atlantic Ocean and lapped to the south by the Caribbean Sea. Beginning in the early 1940s, when the navy purchased twenty-six thousand acres—about three-quarters of the island—for $1.6 million, Vieques served as the largest training area for the United States Atlantic Fleet Forces,...

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Vittoria Di Palma

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-11

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00222.001

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Chapter subject tags:Waste landsNature (aesthetics)Wilderness areas

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~On Sunday April 1, 1649, a small band of men carrying spades and other farming implements appeared on the common at St. George’s Hill near Cobham in Surrey and began to dig. Over the next few days, as they prepared the ground to sow beans, carrots, and parsnips,...

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Vittoria Di Palma

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.12-42

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00222.002

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Chapter subject tags:Land settlementFarm life--EnglandWilderness areasLand useLandscape painting, British

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Chapter II. Improvement

Vittoria Di Palma

Wasteland: A History

~On October 31, 1653, a small tract entitled Wast Land’s Improvement appeared in print. A cheap, popular pamphlet containing the text of a proposal presented to the Parliamentary Committee appointed for the Advancement of Trade, Wast...

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Vittoria Di Palma

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.43-83

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00222.003

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20680

Chapter subject tags:Land useAgricultural implementsWaste landsFarm life--EnglandAgricultural publishing

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~On his way to Manchester in the early 1720s, Daniel Defoe passed by that “great Bog or Waste call’d Chatmos.” Extending for five or six miles on the left-hand side of the road leading north to Manchester, Chat Moss was a peculiar and distinctive topographical feature,...

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Vittoria Di Palma

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.84-127

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00222.004

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20681

Chapter subject tags:Land useWaste landsFens, The (England)Farm life--England

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~On the top left of the map that accompanied the 1622 edition of Michael Drayton’s Poly-Olbion (fig. 52), we see the Peak District of north-central England and its so-called wonders allegorically represented.See Sukanya Dasgupta,...

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Vittoria Di Palma

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.128-176

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00222.005

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Chapter subject tags:Land useSublime, The, in artNature (aesthetics)Mountains in artPeak District (England)

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~Henry Peacham’s emblem for “Nulli penetrabilis,” published in his Minerva Britanna, Or a Garden of Heroical Devises of 1612, features an image of a cluster of trees under a starry sky and...

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Vittoria Di Palma

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.177-229

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00222.006

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Chapter subject tags:Land useNature (aesthetics)

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Chapter VI. Wilderness, Wasteland, Garden

Vittoria Di Palma

Wasteland: A History

~In 1772, the architect William Chambers published a treatise entitled A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening, dedicating it to his patron, George III. Chambers’s fanciful description of Chinese gardens was intended to serve as a critique of the work of Capability Brown and his...

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Vittoria Di Palma

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.230-244

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00222.007

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20684

Chapter subject tags:Land useSublime, The, in artWaste landsWilderness areasIndustrialization

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