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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JOHN BARRELL

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Book Title: The Birth of Pandora
Book Subtitle: and the Division of Knowledge
Authors: John Barrell
Series Title: Language, Discourse, Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372320
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-48288-9Published: 02 December 1991
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37232-0Published: 02 December 1991
Series ISSN: 2947-0188
Series E-ISSN: 2947-0196
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 263
Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Cultural Studies, Feminism

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

The Private Comedy of Thomas Rowlandson

The Public Figure and the Private Eye

The Public Prospect and the Private View

The Dangerous Goddess

Visualising the Division of Labour

Imaginary Treason, Imaginary Law