John Brewer

Pleasures of the Imagination John Brewer

How is that at the end of the seventeenth century there was almost no native tradition in painting, theatre or publishing, yet by the end of the eighteenth century, England had one of Europe's richest cultures? This book explains this transformation and gives us a much deeper and many-faceted portrait of English culture in the eighteenth century than we have ever had before. Sold well in hardback!