Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. Theaters of Hospitality: The Forms and Uses of Private Landscapes and Public Gardens 29
5. Chapter 2. Pleasure Gardens and Urban Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century 49
6. Chapter 3. Guns in the Gardens: Peter Monamy’s Paintings for Vauxhall 78
7. Chapter 4. Performance Alfresco: Music-Making in London’s Pleasure Gardens 100
8. Chapter 5. Pleasure Gardens of America: Anxieties of National Identity 127
9. Chapter 6. Pleasure Gardens in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: ‘‘Useful for All Classes of Society’’ 150
10. Chapter 7. Night and Day: Illusion and Carnivalesque at Vauxhall 177
11. Chapter 8. ‘‘Strange Beauty in the Night’’: Whistler’s Nocturnes of Cremorne Gardens 195
12. Chapter 9. Edwardian Amusement Parks: The Pleasure Garden Reborn? 217
13. Notes 247
14. Select Bibliography 299
15. List of Contributors 303
16. Index 307
17. Acknowledgments 315