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Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
How was the social and cultural life of Britain affected by the fear that the French Revolution would spread across the channel? In this brilliant, en...
Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796
It is high treason in British law to imagine the king's death. But after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, everyone in Britain must have found thems...
The Rural Poor in English Painting 1730-1840
The eighteenth-century saw a radical change in the depiction of country life in English painting: feeling less constrained by the conventions of class...
An Approach to the Poetry of John Clare
This 1972 text takes John Clare as the focus of different attitudes to landscape as something to have a 'taste' for....
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The Body of the Public
What is the function of painting in a commercial society? This text describes how British artists of the late-18th and early-19th centuries attempted ...
"John Barrell's writings on the history and politics of culture in eighteenth-century Britain address an unusually wide range of cultural practices--p...
A Psychopathology of Imperialism
Thomas De Quincey, best known for his book Confessions of an English Opium Eater, was a journalist and propagandist of Empire, of oriental aggression,...
The official Journal of the John Clare Society, published annually to reflect the interest in, and approaches to, the life and work of the poet John C...
The period 1792–94 witnessed the emergence of the first genuinely popular radical movement in Britain. This collection contains the key trials of Lo...
The period 1792-94 witnessed the emergence of the first genuinely popular radical movement in Britain. After the phenomenal success of Thomas Paine's ...
An Equal, Wide Survey
'a Native Artist'
Born in Ruthin, Denbighshire, Edward Pugh (1763-1813) was a Welsh-speaking artist and writer who worked as a miniaturist in London, exhibiting frequen...
The author has been a mechanical engineer, amongst other oddities, for over 40 years. This book is a collection of engineering anecdotes, sometimes wr...
The period 1792 to 1794 witnessed the emergence of a popular radical movement in Britain. William Pitt's government moved swiftly to prevent French re...
The period 1792-94 witnessed the emergence of the first genuinely popular radical movement in Britain. This collection contains the key trials of Lond...