The pleasures of the imagination : [electronic resource] English culture in the eighteenth century / John Brewer.

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.