John Barrell

John Barrell works at the Centre for 18th-Century Studies at York. He has recently co-edited the complete political writings of William Fox, and is writing a short book on the Welsh topographical artist Edward Pugh.

In the LRB Archive:

• 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
  • Vol. II: The Three Perils of Woman edited by David Groves, Antony Hasler and Douglas Mack
  • 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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