Love in the garden: 'Maud,' 'Great Expectations,' and W.S. Gilbert's 'Sweethearts.'
| Publisher | Rice University |
| Publication | Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0039-3657 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | v37 |
| Issue | n4 |
| Published | 1997-09-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Charles Dickens |
| Author | n/a | Alan Fischler |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | W.S. Gilbert |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
The garden is a central and sacred space in Christian mythology. Of the three crucial events of human history, two - the birth of the race into innocence and the fall of the race into sin - are located in the garden; only the final redemption, which returns humankind to the very bosom of God, is reserved for a realm beyond Nature. In the centuries preceding the Victorian age, gardens occupied a special place in the English literary imagination: they are patently, if problematically, paradisiacal, in the great Renaissance epics of Edmund Spenser and John Milton. Northrop Frye has...
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