Just spotted a book

Posted by Helen on November 21, 1997 at 12:08:41:

Sorry to duplicate this if anyone has beaten me to it...

I was walking past a rack of history books in our university bookshop and saw this very interesting-looking tome: John Brewer, The pleasures of the imagination : English culture in the eighteenth century, published (UK) by HarperCollins,
1997, ISBN 002555379 (all this extremely accurate information from my library catalogue).

It looks fascinating, though I didn't get to study it in detail - basically, a cultural history of the period from the Restoration (1680's) through the C18th: in other words, how Jane Austen's world got to be the way it was (eg. the development of the respectability of novel- reading and writing). Very thick and thorough, and it cost about £20-00 for the paperback.

As I say, I haven't read or even browsed it properly, but I doubt I would have the time to do so. Definitely worth a look, and seems done to a high academic standard of accuracy.

Helen

REPLIES:

• Pleasures Woodhouse 15:21:37 11/25/97 (1)
  • Why not write a short review for our bibliography? Caroline 18:06:20 11/25/97 (0)
• Bookserve Helen 12:11:16 11/21/97 (2)
  • An appointment Caroline 20:56:44 11/21/97 (1)
    • From your Oxford Correspondent... Helen 09:43:20 11/23/97 (0)

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