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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821857903321

Autore

Jung Sandro

Titolo

James Thomson's The Seasons, print culture, and visual interpretation, 1730-1842 / / Sandro Jung

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, [England] : , : Lehigh University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61146-319-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Collana

Studies in Text and Print Culture

Disciplina

821/.5

Soggetti

Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Reading the Visual Paratext; Chapter 2. Editions of The Seasons: 1730-1798; Chapter 3. Paintings and Prints; Chapter 4. Subscription Ventures, Pocket Diaries, and Upmarket Prints; Chapter 5. Editions of The Seasons: 1802-1842; Epilogue; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>This book investigates the cultural afterlife of James Thomson's </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">The Seasons</span><span> (1730) by charting the prominent place it occupied in the visual cultures of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. </span></span>