Even if one accepts Peter's distinction between "space" or the
"outside" and pastoral (which I'm not sure I do - I think pastoral
intermittently wanders between that sense of the outside and its
own sense of convenio with different moments of predominance) I
still think one could place the rediscovery of space/place to the mid
or late seventeenth century for writing in English - even if one
excludes the beginning of the loco-descriptive tradition, there are
still those literary travellers' accounts of exposure to an Alpine
crossing, some of which (exact refs escape me) predate the turn of
the century.
Interesting that about the same time as English gardening (with
the help of French military engineering) did leap the fence (early to
middle 18C) there was a tendency to call the whole thing "Anglo-
Chinese".
Peter
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