Volume 45, Number 6 · April 9, 1998
Culture Ho!
By Peter Holland
The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century
by John Brewer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 721 pp., $40.00
As John Brewer, in his exhilarating remapping of eighteenth-century culture in The Pleasures of the Imagination, turns his attention from the engravings of Thomas Bewick to the provincial musical life of the amateur musician John Marsh, he takes a sideswipe at the readers of this journal:
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