Titelaufnahme

Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-200) and index. - Introduction : Beyond Walpole and chinoiserie -- The impetus for change : Chinese sharawadgi and English horticultural naturalism -- The ambiguous contrast : the oriental tian (heaven) and the occidental zhu (deus) -- In the name of the ancients : Alexander Pope's iconoclastic georgic -- Landscape and freedom : Joseph Addison's affinity with nature -- The call of the wild : Shaftesbury's revolution of aesthetics and ethics -- The paradigmatic shift : the far eastern influence on western modernity