Actor-manager David Garrick and literary giant Samuel Johnson are other key characters, as is John Gay, the writer of the hugely popular ‘The Beggar’s Opera’.Įxtensively illustrated with prints and paintings of the period, the film also features artful reconstructions in its analysis of the arts and their audiences as English high culture first emerged. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in coffee-houses, concert halls, libraries, theatres and pleasure gardens.
John Brewer relates the remarkable stories of entrepreneur Jonathan Tyers, who oversaw the high art and low morals of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, and of Anna Larpent, a voracious reader, gallery-goer and theatre-lover. The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English 'high culture' in the eighteenth century. A world, Brewer argues, that has many parallels with today. Written and presented by the eminent historian John Brewer, and drawn from his highly-acclaimed book ‘The Pleasures of the Imagination’, the film considers the world of commerce and celebrity in which Georgian culture was created. John Brewer is Eli and Edye Broad Professor of Humanities and Social. Sense and Sensation: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century is a lavish exploration of the arts in eighteenth-century London. Buy The Pleasures of the Imagination by John Brewer from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25. John Brewer, author of The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the.
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