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Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796

John Barrell - Art - 2000 - 860 pages
It is high treason in British law to imagine the king's death. But after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, everyone in Britain must have found themselves imagining that the ...
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The Political Theory of Painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt: The Body of the ...

John Barrell - Art - 1995 - 384 pages
What is the function of painting in a commercial society? This text describes how British artists of the late-18th and early-19th centuries attempted to answer this question.
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The Infection of Thomas De Quincey: A Psychopathology of Imperialism

John Barrell, Professor of English and Co-Director Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies John Barrell - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 254 pages
Thomas De Quincey, best known for his book Confessions of an English Opium Eater, was a journalist and propagandist of Empire, of oriental aggression, and of racial paranoia ...
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The Idea of Landscape and the Sense of Place 1730-1840: An Approach to the ...

John Barrell - Literary Criticism - 1972 - 264 pages
This 1972 text takes John Clare as the focus of different attitudes to landscape as something to have a 'taste' for.
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John Clare Society Journal, 2 (1983)

John Barrell, Eric Robinson, E. Barbara Dean, Cecil Scrimgeour - 1983 - 52 pages
The official Journal of the John Clare Society, published annually to reflect the interest in, and approaches to, the life and work of the poet John Clare.
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Property

John Barrell - Poetry - 1966 - 22 pages
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'Exhibition Extraordinary!!': Radical Broadsides of the Mid 1790s

John Barrell - History - 2001 - 116 pages
This collection presents 26 political satires that appeared in London during the mid-1790s, together with an explanatory introduction and full commentary.
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