James Thomson's The Seasons, Print Culture, and Visual Interpretation, 1730-1842

This book investigates the cultural afterlife of James Thomson's The Seasons (1730) by charting the prominent place it occupied in the visual cultures of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain.

List of contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Reading the Visual Paratext
Editions of The Seasons: 1730-1798
Paintings and Prints
Subscription Ventures, Pocket Diaries, and Up-Market Prints
Editions of The Seasons: 1802-1842
Epilogue

About the author

By Sandro Jung

Summary

This book investigates the cultural afterlife of James Thomson’s The Seasons (1730) by charting the prominent place it occupied in the visual cultures of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain.

Product details

• Authors: Sandro Jung
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781611463194
• ISBN: 978-1-61146-319-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 232 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Series: Studies in Text & Print Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies