Product Description: Born in Ruthin, Denbighshire, Edward Pugh (1763–1813) was a Welsh-speaking artist and writer who worked as a miniaturist in London, exhibiting frequently at the Royal Academy. But Pugh’s passion was the landscape, and he painted remarkable views of North Wales that not only captivate but also reveal the development of the Welsh economy and Welsh national consciousness...read more

Product Description: The period 1792-94 witnessed the emergence of the first genuinely popular radical movement in Britain. After the phenomenal success of Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man", the government moved swiftly to prevent French republican ideas taking hold in Britain, beginning with the prosecution of Paine himself in absentia...read more

Product Description: How was the social and cultural life of Britain affected by the fear that the French Revolution would spread across the channel? In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien régime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the "normal" arena of politics...read more

Product Description: This collection presents 26 political satires that appeared in London during the mid-1790s, together with an explanatory introduction and full commentary.

Examines the opinions of Reynolds, Barry, Blake, and Fuseli in regard to the function of painting in modern society

Product Description: Part of a series, this collection contains essays delivered as papers, which focus on 18th-century British culture. Other titles in the series, by various authors, include "The Crisis in Historical Materialism", "The Freudian Subject" and "Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics and Cinema"...read more

Product Description: Thomas De Quincey, best known for his book Confessions of an English Opium Eater, was a journalist and propagandist of Empire, of oriental aggression, and of racial paranoia. The greater part of the fourteen volumes of his collected writings concerns the history, the colonial development, and increasingly the threat presented by the Orient in all its manifestations—human, animal, and microbiological...read more

The interplay between Poetry, Language, and Politics in modern Culture

Product Description: An anthology divided into eight broadly chronological sections, each preceded by an introduction tracing the development of the pastoral tradition and its relation to the changing social conditions of a particular period. Includes formal eclogues, pastoral drama, country-house poems, poems about agriculture in the style of Virgil's "Georgics", and poems that satirize or denounce the pastoral tradition...read more

Product Description: The eighteenth-century saw a radical change in the depiction of country life in English painting: feeling less constrained by the conventions of classical or theatrical pastoral, landscape painters attempted to offer a portrayal of what life was really like, or was thought to be like, in England; and this inevitably involved a distinct approach to the depiction of the rural poor...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: It is generally agreed that in the early eighteenth century people began to be interested in landscape as something to have a 'taste' for; that they saw landscape through the eyes of the great painters, and that later pictures, poetry and landscape gardening all reflect that taste...read more