The pleasures of the imagination :

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Brewer, John,, 1947- The pleasures of the imagination : English culture in the eighteenth century / John Brewer. - 1st Farrar Straus and Giroux ed.. - New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
xxx, 721 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Originally published: United Kingdom : HarperCollins, 1997. Content notes : Changing places : the court and the city -- The pleasures of the imagination -- Authors, publishers and the making of literary culture -- Readers and the reading public -- The market and the academy -- Connoisseurs and artists -- Painters' practice, artists' lives -- The Georgian stage -- The theatre, power and commerce -- Performance for the nation -- Borrowing, copying and collecting -- The English provinces -- Thomas Bewick : 'the poet who lives on the banks of the Tyne' -- 'The harmony of heaven' : John Marsh and provincial music -- 'Queen muse of Britain' : Anna Seward of Lichfield and the literary provinces -- Culture, nature and nation. 0374234582 9780374234584 * England - Civilization - 18th century. England - Social life and customs - 18th century. England - Intellectual life - 18th century.