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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
A New Display of the Beauties of England
Author: The Curiosities and Beauties of England Displayed
Author: Frederick Newman (of Richmond, Surrey.)Publisher:
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Category : Abbeys
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A Bibliographical Account of the Principal Works Relating to English Topography
Author: William UpcottPublisher: London : Printed by R. and A. Taylor
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Category : Bibliotheca topographica britannica
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
The Pleasures of the Imagination
Author: John BrewerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415658845
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
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.
Touring and Publicizing England's Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Jocelyn AndersonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501334999
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Over the course of the long 18th century, many of England's grandest country houses became known for displaying noteworthy architecture and design, large collections of sculptures and paintings, and expansive landscape gardens and parks. Although these houses continued to function as residences and spaces of elite retreat, they had powerful public identities: increasingly accessible to tourists and extensively described by travel writers, they began to be celebrated as sites of great importance to national culture. This book examines how these identities emerged, repositioning the importance of country houses in 18th-century Britain and exploring what it took to turn them into tourist attractions. Drawing on travel books, guidebooks, and dozens of tourists' diaries and letters, it explores what it meant to tour country houses such as Blenheim Palace, Chatsworth, Wilton, Kedleston and Burghley in the tumultuous 1700s. It also questions the legacies of these early tourists: both as a critical cultural practice in the 18th century and an extraordinary and controversial influence in British culture today, country-house tourism is a phenomenon that demands investigation.
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Jurisprudence
Author: A Catalogue Of The Books Belonging To The Library Company Of Philadelphia; To Which Is Prefixed A Short Account Of The Institution, With The Charter Laws And Regulations
Author: A Catalogue of the Books, Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia, with an Account of the Institution, Charters, Laws and Regulations
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Jurisprudence
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description