The Pleasures of the Imagination - Brewer, John
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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.

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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.
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Autorenporträt
John Brewer is Eli and Edye Broad Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. His publications include, with Roy Porter, Consumption and the World of Goods in the 17th and 18th Centuries, (Routledge, 1993), with Ann Bermingham, The Consumption of Culture: Word, Image, and Object in the 17th and 18th Centuries, (Routledge, 1995), A Sentimental Murder. Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century (2004), with Frank Trentmann, Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges (2006), The American Leonardo: a 20th-century tale of obsession, art and money (2009).