Literature And Popular Culture In Eighteenth Century England

Author : Pat Rogers
Publisher : Sussex : Harvester Press ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Popular Culture in Eighteenth Century England written by Pat Rogers and published by Sussex : Harvester Press ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble. This book was released on 1985 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studie over de wisselwerking tussen de Engelse literatuur en de nieuwe vormen van populaire cultuur in de 18e eeuw

Author : John Brewer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113591236X
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pleasures of the Imagination written by John Brewer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John Mullan
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780198711353
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eighteenth-century Popular Culture written by John Mullan and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2000 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a carefully annotated selection from the popular culture of the eighteenth century. Each chapter focuses on not only a particular theme but also a particular story, often illustrated by contemporary newspaper reports. It makes available to any reader with an interest in the period material that was once popular but has long been buried.

Author : Barry Reay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Culture in Seventeenth-century England written by Barry Reay and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852855345
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture in Eighteenth-Century England written by Jeremy Black and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He also shows the different currents at work, belying any simple picture of England and the English as confident and self-assured."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Isabel Rivers
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847144004
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England written by Isabel Rivers and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of eight new essays investigates ways in which significant kinds of 18th-century writings were designed and received by different audiences. Rivers explores the answers to certain crucial questions about the contemporary use of books. This new edition contains the results of important new research by well known specialists in the field of book and publishing history over the last two decades.

Author : John David Morley
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312135874
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pictures from the Water Trade written by John David Morley and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes his experiences as a student in Japan and offers an inside look at the nightclubs and geisha bars of Tokyo

Author : E. P. Thompson
Publisher : New Press/ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1620972166
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Customs in Common written by E. P. Thompson and published by New Press/ORIM. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “meticulously researched, elegantly argued and deeply humane” sequel to the landmark volume of social history, The Making of the English Working Class (The New York Times Book Review). This remarkable study investigates the gradual disappearance of a range of cultural customs against the backdrop of the great upheavals of the eighteenth century. As villagers were subjected to a legal system increasingly hostile to custom, they tried both to resist and to preserve tradition, becoming, as E. P. Thompson explains, “rebellious, but rebellious in defense of custom.” Although some historians have written of riotous peasants of England and Wales as if they were mainly a problem for magistrates and governments, for Thompson it is the rulers, landowners, and governments who were a problem for the people, whose exuberant culture preceded the formation of working-class institutions and consciousness. Essential reading for all those intrigued by English history, Customs in Common has a special relevance today, as traditional economies are being replaced by market economies throughout the world. The rich scholarship and depth of insight in Thompson’s work offer many clues to understanding contemporary changes around the globe. “[This] long-awaited collection . . . is a signal contribution . . . [from] the person most responsible for inspiring the revival of American labor history during the past thirty years.” —The Nation “This book signals the return to historical writing of one of the most eloquent, powerful and independent voices of our time. At his best he is capable of a passionate, sardonic eloquence which is unequalled.” —The Observer

Author : Tim Harris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349239712
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Culture in England, c. 1500–1850 written by Tim Harris and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1995-05-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As scholarly interest in popular culture has grown, more and more British and American universities have been introducing courses in popular culture, now seen as an essential aspect of historical investigation. This volume answers the need for a book focusing on England (unlike Peter Burke's Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (1978), and over a broad time period (unlike Barry Reay's Popular Culture in Seventeenth-Century England (1985)), which will fulfil it's aim of appealing both to specialists and students coming new to the subject. Tim Harris has assembled a very strong team of contributors who will ensure a very lively and interesting collection of essays.

Author : Adrian Randall
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853237006
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Markets, Market Culture and Popular Protest in Eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland written by Adrian Randall and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is concerned with markets, market culture and popular protest in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland. The chapters focus upon both urban and rural communities: towns and cities, villages and corporations, colliers and tradesmen all feature in these studies since the market was ubiquitous and universal. How it was managed, however, varied from place to place and from time to time and the process of management provides us with a major insight into the social, political and economic relationships of eighteenth-century Britain. Some readers will see in these chapters evidence of the heterogeneity of these relations, but others will recognize that, for all the apparent differences, on basic issues of provisioning there was a remarkable uniformity. Following an introductory chapter, contributions focus on protest in relation to customary corn measures, opposition to turnpikes, resistance to the Cider Tax, scarcity and market management in Bristol, the moral economy of "the English middling sort", Oxford food riots and the Irish famine 1799–1801.