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English Garden in English Novel

This essay tries to prove that an English novel is a good textbook, in teaching English Garden, one of the major English cultural issues. English Garden, specifically, English Landscape Garden or Picturesque Garden is a critical issue in that it contributed to forming English Identity as rural England in the period of Industrial Revolution and Enclosure. To achieve that goal, it first examines the ideas and major characteristics of eighteenth century English Garden, including Lancelot Brown’s picturesque landscape design which was very popular from mid-eighteenth to the late eighteenth century in England. Next, it searches the descriptions of Landscape Garden in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, which is set in rural England in the late eighteenth century. Lastly, it connects the characteristics of Brown’s Landscape Garden, main features of which are spontaneity, naturalness, emphasis on sentiments and the symbol of liberty to the representation of the novel’s main characters, Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, and their change and growth.