Abstract:The introduction explains why the categories of gender, genre, and geopoetics provide a broad approach for organizing a wide range of texts. It begins with an introduction to ancient garden studies: literary, art historical, and archaeological. It offers definitions of the types of Roman gardens, the identification of gardens in literature, and methods of analyzing these representations. Contemporary spatial theory has encouraged an exploration of the relationship between identity and the environment and how p… Show more
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