The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island

List of Contributors

Contributors Peter Borsay is Professor of History at Aberystwyth University. His 1989 book The Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town, – as well as his 1990 reader The Eighteenth-Century Town have had a lasting impact on the study of the early modern town. His most recent book is A History of Leisure: The British Experience Since  (2006). Jonathan Conlin is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Southampton. A cultural historian of modern Britain who has published articles on Victorian Vauxhall and Parisian ‘‘Wauxhalls’’ in the Journal of British Studies and Urban History, he is the author of The Nation’s Mantelpiece: A History of the National Gallery (2006) and Civilisation (a study of the 1969 television series, 2009). Rachel Cowgill is Professor of Musicology at the University of Cardiff. She has published widely on Mozart reception; opera and politics ; British musical cultures from 1760 through 1940; blackface minstrelsy ; and gender, sexuality, and identity in music. She co-edited Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century British Music (with Julian Rushton, 2006) and Music in the British Provinces, – (with Peter Holman, 2007). She edits the Journal of the Royal Musical Association. Lake Douglas is Associate Professor at the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University. He has written extensively for academic journals, popular magazines, books, and professional publications in America and Europe and curated two groundbreaking exhibitions in New Orleans: In Search of Yesterday’s Gardens: Landscapes of Nineteenth-Century New Orleans (2001) and Plants of the Louisiana Purchase (2003). Among his books are Gardens of New Orleans: Exquisite Excess (2001) and Public Spaces, Private Gardens: A History of Designed Landscapes in New Orleans (2011). 304 Contributors Eleanor Hughes is Associate Curator and Head of Exhibitions and Publications at the Yale Center for British Art. She is currently working on an exhibition and related book on eighteenth-century British marine painting. John Dixon Hunt teaches at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design, where he is Professor Emeritus of the History and Theory of Landscape. Before joining Penn in 1994 he served as Director of Studies in Landscape Architecture at Dumbarton Oaks. He is the author of numerous articles and books on garden history and theory, including a catalog of the landscape drawings of William Kent, Garden and Grove (1986), Gardens and the Picturesque (1992), The Picturesque Garden in Europe (2002), and The Afterlife of Gardens (2004). He edits Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes and was founding editor of Word & Image. Josephine Kane is currently British Academy Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Architecture at the University of Westminster, London . Her special interest is the relationship among the experience of pleasure , modernity, and the architectural landscape in twentieth-century Britain. She has previously held posts as Research Associate at the University of Hertfordshire and Associate Lecturer at Central St. Martin’s School of Art and Design. She has also worked for Historic Royal Palaces and taught at heritage sites across the United Kingdom. Anne Koval is Associate Professor in Art History at Mount Allison University, New Brunswick. She co-authored James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth (with Ronald Anderson, 1994, reissued 2002) and has written several essays on the artist. She has contributed to exhibition catalogs at Tate Britain (Whistler and His Time, 1994), the Edward Day Gallery (Toronto), and the Art Gallery of Hamilton. She has also curated exhibitions including Framing Nature: The Picturesque in Landscape, The Art of the Copy, Louis Weldon Hawkins: Shades of Grey, and more recently the contemporary art exhibition Paper Doll held at the Owens Art Gallery (2011) and the Mendel Art Gallery (2012). Deborah Epstein Nord is Professor of English at Princeton University . Her fields of interest include Victorian literature and culture, gender studies, and literature of the city. Her books include The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985), Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation , and the City (1995), and Gypsies and the British Imagination, –  (). Contributors 305 Naomi Stubbs is an Assistant Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. She specializes in the theater and popular entertainments of nineteenth-century America, and recently completed her Ph.D. at CUNY’s Graduate Center on the pleasure gardens of America. Her publications include an article on David Garrick in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and a chapter examining the role of technology in pleasure gardens in the...