John Barrell

John Barrell is a member of the Centre for 18th-Century Studies at the University of York. His next book, on the Welsh artist and writer Edward Pugh, will be published in 2013 on the bicentenary of Pugh’s death.

In the LRB Archive:

• May I come to your house to philosophise?: Godwin’s Letters · 8 September 2011

  • The Letters of William Godwin Vol. I: 1778-97 by Pamela Clemit

• Topography v. Landscape: Paul Sandby · 13 May 2010

  • Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain

• Dephlogisticated: Dr Beddoes · 19 November 2009

  • The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments of Dr Beddoes and His Sons of Genius by Mike Jay

• The Positions He Takes: Hitchens on Paine · 30 November 2006

  • Thomas Paine’s ‘Rights of Man’: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens

• Unwarranted: John Wilkes Betrayed · 6 July 2006

  • John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty by Arthur Cash

• Like Unruly Children in a Citizenship Class: a hero for Howard · 21 April 2005

  • The Laughter of Triumph: William Hone and the Fight for a Free Press by Ben Wilson

• The Reptile Oculist: on the trail of the mysterious John Taylor · 1 April 2004

• Divided We Grow: When Pitt Panicked · 5 June 2003

  • The London Corresponding Society 1792-99 edited by Michael T. Davis
  • Romanticism, Publishing and Dissent: Joseph Johnson and the Cause of Liberty by Helen Braithwaite

• Inside the Head: The Corruption of Literary Biography · 2 November 2000

  • Coleridge: Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes

• Lever-Arch Inquisitor · 29 October 1998

  • Theatres of Memory. Vol. II. Island Stories: Unravelling Britain by Raphael Samuel, edited by Alison Light

• Putting Down the Rising · 22 February 1996

  • The Collected Works of James Hogg. Vol. I: The Shepherd’s Calendar edited by Douglas Mack
  • Collected Works of James Hogg. Vol. II: The Three Perils of Woman edited by David Groves, Antony Hasler and Douglas Mack
  • Collected Works of James Hogg. Vol. III: A Queer Book edited by P.D. Garside

• The Argument from Design · 24 August 1995

  • Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama

• The view from the street · 7 April 1994

  • Hogarth. Vol. I: The ‘Modern Moral Subject’, 1697-1732 by Ronald Paulson

• Grateful Dead · 22 April 1993

  • The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons edited by C.S. Nicholls

• When will he suspect? · 19 November 1992

  • Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt

• Blame it on the French · 8 October 1992

  • Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 by Linda Colley

• Make the music mute · 9 July 1992

  • English Music by Peter Ackroyd

• Back of Beyond · 9 April 1992

  • Keeping a rendezvous by John Berger

• Diary · 29 August 1991

• Constable’s Plenty · 15 August 1991

  • Constable by Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams
  • Romatic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition by Jonathan Bate

• Gone to earth · 30 March 1989

  • Sporting Art in 18th-Century England: A Social and Political History by Stephen Deuchar

• What we think about painting · 25 June 1987

  • Past and Present in Art and Taste: Selected Essays by Francis Haskell

• Beholders · 2 April 1981

  • Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot by Michael Fried

• Gainsborough’s Woodmen · 18 December 1980

  • Thomas Gainsborough by John Hayes

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