Table of contents:
Preface Introduction 1. Macbeth and premonitions Martin Wiggins. 2. Masters and servants in moral religious treaties, 1580 - 1642 Mark Thornton Burnett. 3. Aesthetic and commodity: an examination of the function of the verbal J.M.W Turner's artistic practice Marcia Pointon. 4. Visualising the division of labour: William Pyne's Microcosm John Barrell 5. Illegitimacy, insanity and insolvency, Wilkie Collins and the Victorian nightmare Stana Nenadic 6. Art and tourism in Southern Germany Robin Lenman 7. Art as a weapon: social critique and political orientation in painting and print in Weimar Germany William Guttsman 8. Political thrillers and the condition of England from the 1840s to the 1980s Christopher Harvey 9. Room at the Top: the novel and the film Arthur Marwick 10. Modern classical plays on contemporary English stages Brian Stone Conclusion Arthur Marwick
Explores the complex and problematic relationships between cultural products - from Shakespeare to visual art, the novel, film and modern drama - and the societies which produce them.
Preface Introduction 1. Macbeth and premonitions Martin Wiggins. 2. Masters and servants in moral religious treaties, 1580 - 1642 Mark Thornton Burnett. 3. Aesthetic and commodity: an examination of the function of the verbal J.M.W Turner's artistic practice Marcia Pointon. 4. Visualising the division of labour: William Pyne's Microcosm John Barrell 5. Illegitimacy, insanity and insolvency, Wilkie Collins and the Victorian nightmare Stana Nenadic 6. Art and tourism in Southern Germany Robin Lenman 7. Art as a weapon: social critique and political orientation in painting and print in Weimar Germany William Guttsman 8. Political thrillers and the condition of England from the 1840s to the 1980s Christopher Harvey 9. Room at the Top: the novel and the film Arthur Marwick 10. Modern classical plays on contemporary English stages Brian Stone Conclusion Arthur Marwick
Explores the complex and problematic relationships between cultural products - from Shakespeare to visual art, the novel, film and modern drama - and the societies which produce them.