The Birth of Pandora: and the Division of Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9780333482889 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 263 str.

J. Barrell

Opis

Part of a series, this collection contains essays delivered as papers, which focus on 18th-century British culture. Other titles in the series, by various authors, include "The Crisis in Historical Materialism", "The Freudian Subject" and "Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics and Cinema".

Spis treści

List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Foreword - The Private Comedy of Thomas Rowlandson - The Public Figure and the Private Eye: William Collins's 'Ode to Evening' - The Public Prospect and the Private View: The Politics of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain - 'The Dangerous Goddess': Masculinity, Prestige and the Aesthetic in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain - Visualising the Division of Labour: William Pyne's Microcosm - Imaginary Treason, Imaginary Law: The State Trials of 1794 - The Birth of Pandora and the Origin of Painting - Notes - References - Index

O autorze

JOHN BARRELL