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The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century

The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century Paperback - 2013

by Brewer, John

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  • Title The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century
  • Author Brewer, John
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 576
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2013-03-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR010012072
  • ISBN 9780415658850 / 0415658853
  • Weight 2.51 lbs (1.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.6 x 6.8 x 1.1 in (24.38 x 17.27 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects England - Social life and customs - 18th, England - Intellectual life - 18th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012046302
  • Dewey Decimal Code 942.07

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The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in coffee-houses, concert halls, libraries, theatres and pleasure gardens. In 1660, there were few professional authors, musicians and painters, no public concert series, galleries, newspaper critics or reviews. By the dawn of the nineteenth century they were all aprt of the cultural life of the nation.

John Brewer's enthralling book explains how this happened and recreates the world in which the great works of English eighteenth-century art were made. Its purpose is to show how literature, painting, music and the theatre were communicated to a public increasingly avid for them. It explores the alleys and garrets of Grub Street, rummages the shelves of bookshops and libraries, peers through printsellers' shop windows and into artists' studios, and slips behind the scenes at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. It takes us out of Gay and Boswell's London to visit the debating clubs, poetry circles, ballrooms, concert halls, music festivals, theatres and assemblies that made the culture of English provincial towns, and shows us how the national landscape became one of Britain's greatest cultural treasures. It reveals to us a picture of English artistic and literary life in the eighteenth century less familiar, but more suprising, more various and more convincing than any we have seen before.

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About the author

John Brewer is Eli and Edye Broad Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. His publications include, with Roy Porter, Consumption and the World of Goods in the 17th and 18th Centuries, (Routledge, 1993), with Ann Bermingham, The Consumption of Culture: Word, Image, and Object in the 17th and 18th Centuries, (Routledge, 1995), A Sentimental Murder. Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century (2004), with Frank Trentmann, Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges (2006), The American Leonardo: a 20th-century tale of obsession, art and money (2009).

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