This book investigates the cultural afterlife of James Thomson's The Seasons (1730) by charting the prominent place it occupied in the visual cultures of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain.
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Reading the Visual Paratext
Editions of The Seasons: 1730-1798
Paintings and Prints
Subscription Ventures, Pocket Diaries, and Up-Market Prints
Editions of The Seasons: 1802-1842
Epilogue
Sandro Jung is distinguished professor of English and comparative literature at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.