Bücher von John Barrell

John Clare, who lived most of his life in rural Northamptonshire, whose landscape was being transformed by enclosure, is taken as the focus of different attitudes to landscape as something to have a 'taste' for. This 1972 text brings 'taste' into contact with the social and economic bases of life.

John Barrell's influential 1980 study shows why the poor began to be of such interest to painters, and examines the ways in which they could be represented so as to be an acceptable part of the decor of the salons of the rich. His terse and vigourous account has provided a landmark for literary critics, social and art historians.