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

ISBN-13: 9780415658850 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 566 str.

John Brewer

Opis

With 'The Pleasures of the Imagination', John Brewer examines the birth and development of English 'high culture' in the 18th century.

Spis treści

Preface.  Introduction.  Part 1. Contexts Part 2. Print  Part 3. Paint  Part 4. Performance Part 6. Province and Nation  Part 7. Britain. Conclusion.  Bibliography.  Sources of Illustration.  Index.

O autorze

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).