Eighteenth Century English Literature and Its Cultural Background
Title | Eighteenth Century English Literature and Its Cultural Background PDF eBook |
Author | James E. Tobin |
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Pages | |
Release | 1967 |
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The Eighteenth Century
Title | The Eighteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | James Sambrook |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2014-07-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317893247 |
This is an impressive and lucid survey of eighteenth-century intellectual life, providing a real sense of the complexity of the age and of the cultural and intellectual climate in which imaginative literature flourished. It reflects on some of the dominant themes of the period, arguing against such labels as 'Augustan Age', 'Age of Enlightenment' and 'Age of Reason', which have been attached to the eighteenth-century by critics and historians.
Eighteenth century English literature and its cultural background
Title | Eighteenth century English literature and its cultural background PDF eBook |
Author | James Edward Tobin |
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Pages | 190 |
Release | 1969 |
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Eighteenth Century English Literature and Its Cultural Background
Title | Eighteenth Century English Literature and Its Cultural Background PDF eBook |
Author | James E. Tobin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 1967 |
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The Pleasures of the Imagination
Title | The Pleasures of the Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | John Brewer |
Publisher | Routledge |
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.
Eighteenth Century English Literature and Its Cultural Background
Title | Eighteenth Century English Literature and Its Cultural Background PDF eBook |
Author | James Edward Tobin |
Publisher | Biblo & Tannen Publishers |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780819601889 |
Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Title | Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Goring |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 169 |
Release | 2008-03-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0826485650 |
This guide provides a clear and concise overview of literature from 1688-1789 and its context.