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Afficher les exemplaires de cette édition ISBNThe 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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Description du livre Hardback. Etat : Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. N° de réf. du vendeur GOR001758693
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. Clean, unmarked copy with firm hinges, sharp corners. DJ has faded strip to spine o/w VG+ condition. BP/Brit Cultural Hist. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1676838894121
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Description du livre Black Cloth Boards. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Examination of the birth and development of the vibrant English culture of the 18th century. 721pp with index, illustrated profusely throughout in colour and black and white. Gilt lettering on red title label to spine, dark endpapers. Slight marking to lower edges and crease to front endpaper, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has minor edge and surface wear, otherwise very good. HEAVY BOOK, additional postage may be required. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book. N° de réf. du vendeur 015120
Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Black hardcover, spine with gold-color lettering on red background, xxx, 721 pp., 12 color plates, numerous b/w illus., full-color illustrated jacket in Brodart sleeve. Excellent condition. Explores the subtle blend of cultivation and snobbery out of which English artistic taste emerged in the eighteenth century. **This book weighs 5 lbs (2.26 kg). Extra charges for priority and international shipping.**. N° de réf. du vendeur 025615
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