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"John Brewer explains the ways in which literature, painting, music and the theatre were communicated to the public. He also examines how the roles of writers, painters, musicians and actors changed dramatically and looks at the creation of professional bodies such as the Royal Academy."
"'If you want to understand how British culture reinvented itself in the eighteenth century, read The Pleasures of the Imagination ... Like all really original achievements it makes us sharply rethink things we supposed we knew well, but it does so with humour and humanity, and through the text runs Brewer's remarkable intellect: forceful, lucid and penetrating.' Simon Schama'The Pleasures of the Imagination is a splendid cornucopia of a book. It describes the contortions of the eighteenth century as it developed a culture ... It is full of pure delight ... The marve."@en
""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"--Publisher's description."

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"I piaceri dell'immaginazione : la cultura inglese nel Settecento"
"The pleasures of the imagination"
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"I piaceri dell'immaginazione : la cultura inglese del Settecento"
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"The Pleasures of the imagination : English culture in the eighteenth century"
"The Pleasures of the imagination : the emergence of english culture in the eighteenth century"
"The pleasures of the imagination English culture in the eighteenth century"
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"I piaceri dell'immaginazione : la cultura inglese nel settecento"@it
"The pleasures of the imagination : English culture in the eighteenth century"@en
"The pleasures of the imagination : English culture in the eighteenth century"
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