L'écriture des jardins au tournant des Lumières

Landscape gardens became extremely fashionable in France towards 1760, and until 1810 or so, the vogue gave rise to the publication of a very large number of books on this art. This corpus of unprecedented abundance on the subject is further characterized by the great diversity of literary forms it uses. How can one account for such profusion and variety?It would seem that gardens became an opportunity for creating a literary kind of utopia: the utopia that might allow writers to smash distinctions between literary genres into pieces and create a form of writing, notably a descriptive one that became a rival for the visual arts and was itself the very object it evoked.

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