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A subject for taste : culture in eighteenth-century England

"A Subject for Taste 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 the 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
Print Book, English, 2005
Hambledon and London ; Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, London, New York, 2005
xix, 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781852854638, 9781852855345, 1852854634, 1852855347
57638610
Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1 Arts and Amusements; 2 The Crown; 3 The Aristocracy; 4 Religion; 5 The Middling Orders; 6 Pleasures for the Many; 7 Books and Newspapers; 8 Styles; 9 London and the Provinces; 10 Home and Abroad; Notes; Selected Further Reading; Index.