The Modern Culture of Reginald Farrer: Landscape, Literature and Buddhism

Michael Charlesworth

The Modern Culture of Reginald Farrer
Landscape, Literature and Buddhism

Michael Charlesworth

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Reginald Farrer (1880-1920), English writer and garden designer

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Studies In Comparative Literature 36

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26 February 2018 • 276pp

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The British plant-collector Reginald Farrer (1880-1920) became a Buddhist in Ceylon, and his published works contain lively and uninhibited critiques of British society and civilisation partly informed by this alternative perspective. He came to love Asia, spending four years in China, Tibet and Burma, and nine months in Japan. A moderniser in the fields of garden design and garden-writing, he made famous plant introductions, also producing novels and travel-writing, paintings and photographs. In 1917 Farrer visited the Great War’s Western Front and published a book describing the emotional effect of that experience. He is very much an unknown and unsung hero of twentieth-century culture. Charlesworth explores all Farrer’s activities, particularly his involvement with two strong forces within the cultural dynamics of the early twentieth century: modernism and Buddhism.

Michael Charlesworth is Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin.

See news item: Sri Lanka to the Western Front: Farrer's Buddhism (lecture, 8 August 2017)

Reviews:

‘The clear strengths of this book are in its lucid prose, historical accuracy, and truly fascinating subject matter... Richly supported in terms of diverse textual materials, the book is also visually stunning and contains a number of wonderful illustrations, photographs, and reproduced artworks... Charlesworth’s book presents a compelling case for a renewed interest in Reginald Farrer’s writings, and will remain the definitive work on this topic for many years to come.’ — Jeffrey Mather, Modern Language Review 115.1, 2020, 164-65 (full text online)

Contents:

ix-x	Acknowledgements M. C. doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km1k7.3	Cite
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xi-xii	List of Illustrations Michael Charlesworth doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km1k7.4	Cite
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xiii-xvi	A Rather Personal Preface Michael Charlesworth doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km1k7.5	Cite
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1-12	Introduction Michael Charlesworth doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km1k7.6	Cite
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13-32	Chapter 1 A Distant Bell: Biography 1880–1908 Michael Charlesworth doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km1k7.7	Cite
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33-56	Chapter 2 Farrer in Old Ceylon, 1908 Michael Charlesworth doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km1k7.8	Cite
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57-90	Chapter 3 ‘Lovely Flowers... Made All Worth While’: Biography, 1908–1920 Michael Charlesworth doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km1k7.9	Cite
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91-116	Chapter 4 Among the Personalities: Garden-Writing and Garden Design Michael Charlesworth doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km1k7.10	Cite
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117-126	Chapter 5 Literary Impressionism: the Garden of Asia Michael Charlesworth doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km1k7.11	Cite
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127-155	Chapter 6 ‘A Suicidal Job’: Novel-Writing Michael Charlesworth doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km1k7.12	Cite
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156-172	Chapter 7 Master of Energìa: On the Eaves of the World Michael Charlesworth doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km1k7.13	Cite
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173-190	Chapter 8 Painting (and Describing) Flowers and Landscapes Michael Charlesworth doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km1k7.14	Cite
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191-208	Chapter 9 A Buddhist Visits the Trenches Michael Charlesworth doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km1k7.15	Cite
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209-230	Chapter 10 Into the Halls of Heaven: the Rainbow Bridge Michael Charlesworth doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km1k7.16	Cite
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231-240	Afterword: Transports of the Garden of Ingleborough Hall Michael Charlesworth doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km1k7.17	Cite
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241-246	Appendix: Vasanta the Beautiful Michael Charlesworth doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km1k7.18	Cite
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247-253	Bibliography Michael Charlesworth doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km1k7.19	Cite
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254-260	Index Michael Charlesworth doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km1k7.20	Cite
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The Modern Culture of Reginald FarrerLandscape, Literature and Buddhism

Michael Charlesworth

The Modern Culture of Reginald Farrer
Landscape, Literature and Buddhism