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The eighteenth century : the intellectual and cultural context of English literature 1700-1789 /

Sambrook, James

The eighteenth century : the intellectual and cultural context of English literature 1700-1789 / - Second edition. - xii, 328 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. - Longman literature in English series . - Longman literature in English series .

Includes bibliographies and index.

A study of the intellectual climate in which 18th-century imaginative literature grew and flourished. It considers the parallel imaginative worlds in architecture, sculpture, painting and gardening, and the wide eclecticism of 18th-century culture, drawing together these aspects in its conclusion.

9780582219267 9780582219267: £13.99 0582219264 9781138146372 1138146374


English literature--18th century
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Philosophy--Great Britain--18th century
Art, British--18th century


Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.
Great Britain--Civilization--18th century.

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