Jonathan Conlin is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Southampton and author of Civilisation and The Nation's Mantelpiece: A History of the National Gallery.

"This volume will be a welcome addition to our knowledge of the cultural history of gardens as entertainment centers, not least in terms of the significant shift in the perception of gardens from private, exclusive spaces to public spaces shadowed with anxieties about class, ethnicity, and gender."-Richard Allen Cave, Royal Holloway, University of London

• IntroductionJonathan Conlin 1Chapter 1. Theaters of Hospitality: The Forms and Uses of Private Landscapes and Public GardensJohn Dixon Hunt 29Chapter 2. Pleasure Gardens and Urban Culture in the Long Eighteenth CenturyPeter Borsay 49Chapter 3. Guns in the Gardens: Peter Monamy's Paintings for VauxhallEleanor Hughes 78Chapter 4. Performance Alfresco: Music-Making in London's Pleasure GardensRachel Cowgill 100Chapter 5. Pleasure Gardens of America: Anxieties of National IdentityNaomi Stubbs 127Chapter 6. Pleasure Gardens in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: ''Useful for All Classes of Society''Lake Douglas 150Chapter 7. Night and Day: Illusion and Carnivalesque at VauxhallDeborah Epstein Nord 177Chapter 8. ''Strange Beauty in the Night'': Whistler's Nocturnes of Cremorne GardensAnne Koval 195Chapter 9. Edwardian Amusement Parks: The Pleasure Garden Reborn?Josephine Kane 217Notes 247Select Bibliography 299List of Contributors 303Index 307Acknowledgments 315

Jonathan Conlin is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Southampton and author of Civilisation and The Nation's Mantelpiece: A History of the National Gallery.

"This volume will be a welcome addition to our knowledge of the cultural history of gardens as entertainment centers, not least in terms of the significant shift in the perception of gardens from private, exclusive spaces to public spaces shadowed with anxieties about class, ethnicity, and gender."-Richard Allen Cave, Royal Holloway, University of London

• IntroductionJonathan Conlin 1Chapter 1. Theaters of Hospitality: The Forms and Uses of Private Landscapes and Public GardensJohn Dixon Hunt 29Chapter 2. Pleasure Gardens and Urban Culture in the Long Eighteenth CenturyPeter Borsay 49Chapter 3. Guns in the Gardens: Peter Monamy's Paintings for VauxhallEleanor Hughes 78Chapter 4. Performance Alfresco: Music-Making in London's Pleasure GardensRachel Cowgill 100Chapter 5. Pleasure Gardens of America: Anxieties of National IdentityNaomi Stubbs 127Chapter 6. Pleasure Gardens in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: ''Useful for All Classes of Society''Lake Douglas 150Chapter 7. Night and Day: Illusion and Carnivalesque at VauxhallDeborah Epstein Nord 177Chapter 8. ''Strange Beauty in the Night'': Whistler's Nocturnes of Cremorne GardensAnne Koval 195Chapter 9. Edwardian Amusement Parks: The Pleasure Garden Reborn?Josephine Kane 217Notes 247Select Bibliography 299List of Contributors 303Index 307Acknowledgments 315

Jonathan Conlin is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Southampton and author of Civilisation and The Nation's Mantelpiece: A History of the National Gallery.

"This volume will be a welcome addition to our knowledge of the cultural history of gardens as entertainment centers, not least in terms of the significant shift in the perception of gardens from private, exclusive spaces to public spaces shadowed with anxieties about class, ethnicity, and gender."-Richard Allen Cave, Royal Holloway, University of London

• IntroductionJonathan Conlin 1Chapter 1. Theaters of Hospitality: The Forms and Uses of Private Landscapes and Public GardensJohn Dixon Hunt 29Chapter 2. Pleasure Gardens and Urban Culture in the Long Eighteenth CenturyPeter Borsay 49Chapter 3. Guns in the Gardens: Peter Monamy's Paintings for VauxhallEleanor Hughes 78Chapter 4. Performance Alfresco: Music-Making in London's Pleasure GardensRachel Cowgill 100Chapter 5. Pleasure Gardens of America: Anxieties of National IdentityNaomi Stubbs 127Chapter 6. Pleasure Gardens in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: ''Useful for All Classes of Society''Lake Douglas 150Chapter 7. Night and Day: Illusion and Carnivalesque at VauxhallDeborah Epstein Nord 177Chapter 8. ''Strange Beauty in the Night'': Whistler's Nocturnes of Cremorne GardensAnne Koval 195Chapter 9. Edwardian Amusement Parks: The Pleasure Garden Reborn?Josephine Kane 217Notes 247Select Bibliography 299List of Contributors 303Index 307Acknowledgments 315