John Barrell

John Barrell is emeritus professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London, and an honorary fellow of King’s College, Cambridge.

In the LRB Archive:

• The Stream in the Sky: Thomas Telford · 22 March 2018

  • Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain by Julian Glover

• ‘The Meeting of the Waters’ · 27 July 2017

• A Smile at My Own Temerity: William Hogarth · 16 February 2017

  • William Hogarth: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings by Elizabeth Einberg

• Beyond the Cringe: British Art · 2 June 2016

  • Art in Britain 1660-1815 by David Solkin

• At Tate Britain · 18 December 2014

• In Cardiff: Richard Wilson · 25 September 2014

• To Stir up the People: Pitt’s Reign of Alarm · 23 January 2014

  • Unusual Suspects: Pitt’s Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s by Kenneth Johnston

• At Tate Britain: L.S. Lowry · 8 August 2013

• The Virtues of Topography: Constable, Gainsborough, Turner · 3 January 2013

  • Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape

• Something for Theresa May to think about: The Bow Street Runners · 7 June 2012

  • The First English Detectives: The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750-1840 by J.M. Beattie

• 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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