The pleasures of the imagination : English culture in the eighteenth century / John Brewer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brewer, John, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

England--Civilization--18th century.

England.

England--Social life and customs--18th century.

England--Intellectual life--18th century.

Physical Description:

xxx, 721 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st Farrar Straus and Giroux ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.

Contents:

Pt. I. Contexts. 1. Changing Places: The Court and the City. 2. The Pleasures of the Imagination

Pt. II. Print. 3. Authors, Publishers and the Making of Literary Culture. 4. Readers and the Reading Public

Pt. III. Paint. 5. The Market and the Academy. 6. Connoisseurs and Artists. 7. Painters' Practice, Artists' Lives

Pt. IV. Performance. 8. The Georgian Stage. 9. The Theatre, Power and Commerce. 10. Performance for the Nation

Pt. V. Making a National Heritage. 11. Borrowing, Copying and Collecting

Pt. VI. Province and Nation. 12. The English Provinces. 13. Thomas Bewick: 'The Poet who Lives on the Banks of the Tyne'. 14. 'The Harmony of Heaven': John Marsh and Provincial Music. 15. 'Queen Muse of Britain': Anna Seward of Lichfield and the Literary Provinces

Pt. VII. Britain. 16. Culture, Nature and Nation.

Notes:

First published by HarperCollins, United Kingdom, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 667-691) and index.

ISBN:

0374234582