This study takes an interdisciplinary approach to the historical arts British culture of the late eighteenth century. The historical arts include verbal or visual narratives portraying characters and events from an ostensibly real past. Focusing on history-writing and history-painting, I argue that the historical arts illustrate the slow formation of an Anglo-British national identity, that tentative concord on what it meant to be British, rather than English, Scottish or Welsh. This study contributes an aesthetic to the new British history, a recent alternative to histories in which Scotland, Wales, and Ireland are inexorably assimilated into Little England. I illustrate how the fine arts produced and resisted this kind of history-making, ...
During the mid-eighteenth century two museum institutions the British Museum and the Royal Academy o...
This course surveys British literature of the long eighteenth century. Beginning with Charles ll&apo...
The reception of French pictures, artists and art literature in Britain during the early eighteenth ...
Historians and literary scholars tend to agree that British intellectual culture underwent a fundame...
During the last four decades of the eighteenth century, artists resident in London exhibited images ...
The long eighteenth century was a period in which the material landscape of everyday life became inc...
2 The eighteenth century saw the emergence of Britain as a pre-eminent imperial, mercantile and mari...
In the history of Europe, the eighteenth century is often considered as the period of British suprem...
This thesis is a study of Shakespeare and imperialism in England between 1780 and 1800. Chapters inv...
This thesis examines the work of Tilly Kettle (1735-1786), the first professional British artist to ...
The eighteenth century saw the emergence of Britain as a pre-eminent imperial, mercantile and mariti...
This thesis is a study of Shakespeare and imperialism in England between 1780 and 1800. Chapters inv...
During the mid-eighteenth century two museum institutions the British Museum and the Royal Academy o...
Eighteenth-century English and American portraits are complex, culturally bound artifacts subject to...
Free, romantic, and individualistic, Britain’s self-image in the eighteenth century constructs itsel...
During the mid-eighteenth century two museum institutions the British Museum and the Royal Academy o...
This course surveys British literature of the long eighteenth century. Beginning with Charles ll&apo...
The reception of French pictures, artists and art literature in Britain during the early eighteenth ...
Historians and literary scholars tend to agree that British intellectual culture underwent a fundame...
During the last four decades of the eighteenth century, artists resident in London exhibited images ...
The long eighteenth century was a period in which the material landscape of everyday life became inc...
2 The eighteenth century saw the emergence of Britain as a pre-eminent imperial, mercantile and mari...
In the history of Europe, the eighteenth century is often considered as the period of British suprem...
This thesis is a study of Shakespeare and imperialism in England between 1780 and 1800. Chapters inv...
This thesis examines the work of Tilly Kettle (1735-1786), the first professional British artist to ...
The eighteenth century saw the emergence of Britain as a pre-eminent imperial, mercantile and mariti...
This thesis is a study of Shakespeare and imperialism in England between 1780 and 1800. Chapters inv...
During the mid-eighteenth century two museum institutions the British Museum and the Royal Academy o...
Eighteenth-century English and American portraits are complex, culturally bound artifacts subject to...
Free, romantic, and individualistic, Britain’s self-image in the eighteenth century constructs itsel...
During the mid-eighteenth century two museum institutions the British Museum and the Royal Academy o...
This course surveys British literature of the long eighteenth century. Beginning with Charles ll&apo...
The reception of French pictures, artists and art literature in Britain during the early eighteenth ...