A Subject for Taste
Subtitle: Culture in Eighteenth-Century England
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Hambledon & London
Published: February 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781852855345
Subjects: Cultural studies; Social History; c 1700 to c 1800; History: World; History; History - General History; Europe - Great Britain - General; 18th century; Civilization; England; Intellectual life; Social life and customs
Description: "In the eighteenth century, England became the richest and most powerful country in the world. This is a rounded portrait of English culture in the eighteenth century. Not only a matter of leading writers, from Swift and Pope to Dr. Johnson and Sheridan, and of artists from Hogarth to Reynolds, there was also room for popular ballads, political doggerel, pornographic verse and vigorous satirical cartoons. Taste in architecture ranged from great houses with gardens landscaped by Capability Brown to the changed use of domestic space in towns. Jeremy Black looks at both the wealth of cultural activity in the period and at the patronage of and market for books, art, architecture, high-quality music and consumer goods. He also shows the different currents at work, belying any simple picture of England and the English as confident and self-assured."--Bloomsbury Publishing.