The pleasures of the imagination
English culture in the eighteenth century
1st Farrar Straus and Giroux ed.
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Author
Publication
1997 - Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
180,250 words, Guess
Page Count
721 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL704506M
- ISBN-100374234582
- OCLC Control Number37740354
- OCLC Control Numberpleasuresofimagi00brew
- Library of Congress Control Number97060984
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- Goodreads1224123
- LibraryThing25522
Classifications
- DDC942.07
- LCCDA485 .B74 1997
Description
John Brewer's landmark book shows us how English artists, amateurs, entrepreneurs, and audiences developed a culture that is still celebrated for its wit and brilliance. Brewer's purpose is to show how literature, painting, music, and the theater related to a public increasingly avid for them; how artists used, or were used by, publishers, plagiarists, impresarios, and managers; and how contemporary ideas of taste combined with patriotic fervor and shrewdly managed commerce to create a vibrant, dynamic national culture. In Brewer's transforming analysis, we see revealed a picture of English eighteenth-century art and literature that is less familiar but more surprising, more various, and more convincing than any we have seen before.
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