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On the first edition: "Written with style and wit; it is consistently entertaining, as such monumental surveys rarely manage to be."--Musical Quarterly. "First
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Fifteen outstanding scholars of theater, music, art, and literature explore the interrelations of eighteenth-century British theater and the various art forms t
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The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and