TY - BOOK AU - Brewer,John TI - The pleasures of the imagination: English culture in the eighteenth century SN - 0374234582 AV - DA485 .B74 1997 U1 - 942.07 21 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - Farrar Straus Giroux KW - England KW - Civilization KW - 18th century KW - Social life and customs KW - Intellectual life N1 - Originally published: United Kingdom : HarperCollins, 1997; Includes bibliographical references (p. 667-691) and index; 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0667/97060984-d.html UR - http://www.archive.org/details/pleasuresofimagi00brew UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL704506M ER -