This book brings together many of John Barrell's essays - some written especially for this volume - on the history and politics of culture in eighteenth-century Britain. It addresses a wide range of cultural practices - painting, sculpture, poetry, the law, the division of labour - discussing them in relation to such issues as sexuality, the body and representation and the distinction between public and private. The Birth of Pandora will interest all those involved with or interested in cultural history and cultural studies.
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This book brings together many of John Barrell's essays - some written especially for this volume - on the history and politics of culture in eighteenth-century Britain. It addresses a wide range of cultural practices - painting, sculpture, poetry, the law, the division of labour - discussing them in relation to such issues as sexuality, the body and representation and the distinction between public and private. The Birth of Pandora will interest all those involved with or interested in cultural history and cultural studies.
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Very good in Very good jacket. Jacket is lightly rubbed and worn along edges. Cover is lightly worn along edges. Spine is slightly shaken, but binding is secure. Inside is clean and unmarked.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Cloth in dust jacket, illustrated, clean unmarked text, near fine copy in near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
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Fine in Very Good+ jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7æ-9æ" tall. Hardcover, black cloth with publisher's black pictorial dust-jacket. 263 pages. Notes, References, Index. Illustrated with 47 black and white reproductions of drawings, etchings, engravings and paintings. First American edition, first printing thus. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, fresh and like new book. Dust-jacket shows long surface scratch to glossy finish, else near fine. A fine copy in a very good+ dust-jacket.
