Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jung, Sandro

Titel

Print Culture, High-Cultural Consumption, and Thomson's "The Seasons", 1780-1797

Ist Teil von

• Eighteenth-century studies, 2011-06, Vol.44 (4), p.495-514

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Embedding James Thomson's popular long poem The Seasons (1730) in the print cultural contexts of the 1780s and 1790s, the essay examines the text's extensive afterlife and studies different printed responses to the production. Specifically, it investigates, among a range of material culture spin-offs and visual adaptations, a selection of fine-printed editions (and their paratextual interpretation of Thomson's classic) targeted at middle-to upper-class consumers, the high-cultural furniture print of scenes from The Seasons by Angellica Kauffman, and the appropriation of Thomson's work by Thomas Stothard, one of the most popular book illustrators at the end of the eighteenth century, for two numbers of the ephemeral diary-cum-almanac, The Royal Engagement Pocket Atlas.