Land, Nation and Culture, 1740-1840 Thinking the Republic of Taste

Over the last 20 years, critics and historians of the late eighteenth-century have developed a multidisciplinary approach to the history of culture. This dialogue between literary critics and theorists, art historians and social historians is remapping the relations between culture and society, politics and aesthetics, law and representation. These essays by twelve internationally known scholars return"Taste" to a central position in the discussion of nation, culture and aesthetics in the period.

Peter de Bolla is Lecturer in the English Faculty and Fellow of King's College, and Nigle Leask is Lecturer in the English Faculty and Fellow of Queen's College, both at Cambridge. David Simpson is Professor and G.B. Needham Fellow, English Department, University of California, Davis.