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

ISBN-13: 9780415658843 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 566 str.

John Brewer

Opis

"First published in 1997 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux."

Spis treści

Preface. Introduction. Part 1. Contexts Part 2. Print Part 3. Paint Part 4. PerformancePart 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).