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标题：Reading the Garden: the settlement of Australia by Katie Holmes, Susan K. Martin and Kylie Mirmohandi
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作者：Helen Armstrong
期刊名称：Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
印刷版ISSN：1447-8986
电子版ISSN：1833-6027
出版年度：2009
卷号：9
出版社：Association for the Study of Australian Literature
摘要：Reading Australian garden histories may reveal a few gardens similar to those in Britain or Europe, but interpreting the notion of ‘garden’ is captivating, particularly if read through a range of lenses. There is, for example, the utopian lens. For Europeans, from Rousseau to the post World War Two migrants, Australia has long been imagined as an Antipodean ‘Garden of Eden’. From the late 18th century on, as European cities were becoming increasingly compromised by the impact of industry and mercantilism, some idealists considered that there may be possible utopias, free of corrupting materialism and polluted skies, within the uncharted territories of the Pacific; places that are tropical gardens of rainforest trees.