The Landscape Garden as a Symbol in Rousseau, Goethe and Flaubert
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4456342 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eva Maria Neumeyer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1947 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 187 |
| Publication date | 1947-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2707155 |
| OpenAlex | W2316032148 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
With the appearance of the sentimental novel, it was only a matter of time before one of the great symbols which the epoch had created would enter into it: the landscape garden. Richardson's Clarissa Harlowe has the passions, the exaltations, the exclamation marks, and the bad conscience of the new era; but it limits its field to invisibly present city scenes and no tree, no flower relieves the oppression of haunted innocence. It was in Rousseau's La Nouvelle Hleloise that the motifs and the methods of the novel were merged with the new symbol created by the visual arts, The Landscape Garden. '1 In view of Rousseau's basic philosophical theme, the natural goodness of man spoiled by culture and desiring to return to nature, it was only to be expected that he should introduce the motif of the garden into his novel. Beginning with Rousseaui, it will be our problem to observe how far nature, and specifically the landscape garden, has been used as a significant symbol for the innermost tendencies of three writers and their periods. By analysis we hope to gain insight into the unfolding, the maturing, and the dying of a symbol which expresses almost all the motivating powers that created romanticism, since it is in gardening and not in literature that the new aesthetics of romanticism first express themselves. In Rousseau's novel we find the revolutionary beginning, in Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften the mature expression of these problems. Finally
Linguistics · Symbol (formal) · Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies · German Literature and Culture Studies · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 2023 (28) |
| Highly cited | No |