<span><span>This book investigates the cultural afterlife of James Thomson's <span style=""font-style:italic;"">The Seasons<span> (1730) by charting the prominent place it occupied in the visual cultures of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century...
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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.
Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Reading the Visual Paratext; Chapter 2. Editions of The Seasons: 1730-1798; Chapter 3. Paintings and Prints; Chapter 4. Subscription Ventures, Pocket Diaries, and Upmarket Prints; Chapter 5. Editions of The Seasons: 1802-1842; Epilogue; Index; About the Author