The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century
by John Brewer
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Hardcover: 721 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication Date: 1997-09-30 Edition: 1st Farrar Straus and Giroux ed ISBN: 0374234582
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In 1660, England was a cultural wasteland. Historian John Brewer charts the growth of the literary and artistic milieus later amplified in cofeehouses, libraries, pleasure gardens, and theaters. Brewer offers a radical reconsideration of the roots of modernity in a crucial century poised between the old ways and the new world to come of color plates. 240 b&w illustrations.