ENGLISH

The Pleasures of Imagination English Culture in the Eighteenth Century

By John Brewer

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
ISBN
9780415658850 0415658853
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7786415 bytes)
Pages
565\565
Time added
2018-01-10 00:51:13

Description

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.

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