Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

New York. 1998. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in

New York. 1998. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374234582. 721 pages. hardcover. Jacket Art: Upper Left Corner: Garrick With The Bust Of Shakespeare By Thomas Gains Borough, Engraved By Valentine Green. Upper Right Corner: Tile Macaroni Painter, Or Billy Dimple Sitting For His Picture By Robert Dighton. Engraved By Richard Earlom. Lower Left Corner: Cuzzoni With Farinelli And Heidegger By Dorothy, Countess Of Burlington. Lower Right Corner: A Lady Copying at A Drawing Table By Paul Sandby. Jacket Design By Megan Wilson. keywords: England History Culture. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In 1660, when King Charles II was restored to the throne, England had few professional authors, musicians, or painters, no public concerts, no galleries, newspaper critics, or reviews. But by 1800 all these were part of Britain's rich cultural life. How did this transformation occur? John Brewer's landmark book shows us how English artists, amateurs, entrepreneurs, and audiences developed a culture that is still celebrated for its wit and brilliance. Brewer's purpose is to show how literature, painting, music, and the theater related to a public increasingly avid for them; how artists used, or were used by, publishers, plagiarists, impresarios, and managers; and how contemporary ideas of taste combined with patriotic fervor and shrewdly managed commerce to create a vibrant, dynamic national culture. The Pleasures of the Imagination 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 from John Gay's London to the ballrooms, concert halls, music festivals, and assemblies in England's provinces, and even shows us how the national landscape itself became one of Britain's greatest cultural treasures. inventory #25080.