The Pleasures of Imagination ... A New Edition
Author | : Mark Akenside |
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Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1825 |
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Author | : Mark Akenside |
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Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1825 |
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Author | : Mark Akenside |
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Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1821 |
Genre | : Imagination |
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Author | : Mark Akenside |
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Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1810 |
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Author | : John Brewer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 2013-03-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113591236X |
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. 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.
Author | : Mark Akenside |
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Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1806 |
Genre | : English poetry |
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Author | : David Womersley |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 2001-04-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780631212850 |
This definitive Companion provides a critical overview of literary culture in the period from John Milton to William Blake. Its broad chronological range responds to recent reshapings of the canon and identifies new directions of study. The Companion is composed of over fifty contributions from leading scholars in the field, its essays offer students a comprehensive and accessible survey of the field from a wide range of perspectives. It also, however, gives researchers and faculty the opportunity to update their acquaintance with new critical and scholarly work. The volume meets the needs of an intellectual world increasingly given over to inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary study by covering philosophical, political, cultural and historical writing, as well as literary writing. Unlike other similar volumes, the main body of the Companion consists of readings of individual texts, both those commonly and less commonly studied.
Author | : Mark Akenside |
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Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1744 |
Genre | : English poetry |
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Author | : Tessa Hadley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2002-02-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139432915 |
Tessa Hadley examines how Henry James progressively disentangled himself from the moralizing frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion. Hadley argues that his relationship with the European novel tradition was crucial, helping to leave behind a way of seeing in which only 'bad' women could be sexual. She reads James's transitional fictions of the 1890s as explorations of how disabling and distorting ideals of women's goodness and purity were learned and perpetuated within English and American cultural processes. These explorations, Hadley argues, liberate James to write the great heterosexual love affairs of the late novels, with their emphasis on the power of pleasure and play: themes which are central to James's ambitious enterprise to represent the privileges and the pains of turn-of-the-century leisure class society.
Author | : Joseph Addison |
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Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1828 |
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Author | : Mark Akenside |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1744 |
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