The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island

Contents

Contents Introduction jonathan conlin 1 Chapter 1. Theaters of Hospitality: The Forms and Uses of Private Landscapes and Public Gardens john dixon hunt 29 Chapter 2. Pleasure Gardens and Urban Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century peter borsay 49 Chapter 3. Guns in the Gardens: Peter Monamy’s Paintings for Vauxhall eleanor hughes 78 Chapter 4. Performance Alfresco: Music-Making in London’s Pleasure Gardens rachel cowgill 100 Chapter 5. Pleasure Gardens of America: Anxieties of National Identity naomi stubbs 127 Chapter 6. Pleasure Gardens in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: ‘‘Useful for All Classes of Society’’ lake douglas 150 Chapter 7. Night and Day: Illusion and Carnivalesque at Vauxhall deborah epstein nord 177 vi Contents Chapter 8. ‘‘Strange Beauty in the Night’’: Whistler’s Nocturnes of Cremorne Gardens anne koval 195 Chapter 9. Edwardian Amusement Parks: The Pleasure Garden Reborn? josephine kane 217 Notes 247 Select Bibliography 299 List of Contributors 303 Index 307 Acknowledgments 315 The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island This page intentionally left blank ...