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:
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The Stream in the Sky: Thomas Telford · 22 March 2018
- Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain by Julian Glover
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‘The Meeting of the Waters’ · 27 July 2017
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A Smile at My Own Temerity: William Hogarth · 16 February 2017
- William Hogarth: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings by Elizabeth Einberg
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Beyond the Cringe: British Art · 2 June 2016
- Art in Britain 1660-1815 by David Solkin
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At Tate Britain · 18 December 2014
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In Cardiff: Richard Wilson · 25 September 2014
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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
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At Tate Britain: L.S. Lowry · 8 August 2013
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The Virtues of Topography: Constable, Gainsborough, Turner · 3 January 2013
- Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape
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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
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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
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Topography v. Landscape: Paul Sandby · 13 May 2010
- Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain
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Dephlogisticated: Dr Beddoes · 19 November 2009
- The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments of Dr Beddoes and His Sons of Genius by Mike Jay
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The Positions He Takes: Hitchens on Paine · 30 November 2006
- Thomas Paine’s ‘Rights of Man’: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens
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Unwarranted: John Wilkes Betrayed · 6 July 2006
- John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty by Arthur Cash
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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
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The Reptile Oculist: on the trail of the mysterious John Taylor · 1 April 2004
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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
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Inside the Head: The Corruption of Literary Biography · 2 November 2000
- Coleridge: Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes
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Lever-Arch Inquisitor · 29 October 1998
- Theatres of Memory. Vol. II. Island Stories: Unravelling Britain by Raphael Samuel, edited by Alison Light
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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
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The Argument from Design · 24 August 1995
- Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama
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The view from the street · 7 April 1994
- Hogarth. Vol. I: The ‘Modern Moral Subject’, 1697-1732 by Ronald Paulson
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Grateful Dead · 22 April 1993
- The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons edited by C.S. Nicholls
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When will he suspect? · 19 November 1992
- Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt
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Blame it on the French · 8 October 1992
- Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 by Linda Colley
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Make the music mute · 9 July 1992
- English Music by Peter Ackroyd
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Back of Beyond · 9 April 1992
- Keeping a rendezvous by John Berger
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Diary · 29 August 1991
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Constable’s Plenty · 15 August 1991
- Constable by Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams
- Romatic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition by Jonathan Bate
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Gone to earth · 30 March 1989
- Sporting Art in 18th-Century England: A Social and Political History by Stephen Deuchar
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What we think about painting · 25 June 1987
- Past and Present in Art and Taste: Selected Essays by Francis Haskell
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Beholders · 2 April 1981
- Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot by Michael Fried
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Gainsborough’s Woodmen · 18 December 1980
- Thomas Gainsborough by John Hayes
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