Pleasures of the Imagination - English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Paperback, New edition)

PrefaceIntroductionPart I: Contexts1. Changing Places: The Court and the City2. The Pleasures of the ImaginationPart II: Print3. Authors, Publishers and the Making of Literary Culture4. Readers and the Reading PublicPart III: Paint5. The Market and the Academy6. Connoisseurs and Artists7. Painters' Practice, Artists' LivesPart IV: Performance8. The Georgian Stage9. The Theatre, Power and Commerce10. Performance for the NationPart V: Making a National Heritage11. Borrowing, Copying and CollectingPart VI: Province and Nation12. The English Provinces13. Thomas Bewick: 'The Poet who Lives on the Banks of the Tyne'14. 'The Harmony of Heaven': John Marsh and Provincial Music15. 'Queen Muse of Britain': Anna Seward of Lichfield and the Literary ProvincesPart VII: Britain16. Culture, Nature and NationConclusionBibliographySources of IllustrationsIndex