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THE BIRTH OF PANDORA AND THE DIVISION OF KNOWLEDGE John Barrell LANGUAGE, DISCOURSE, SOCIETY Editors: Stephen Heath, Colin MacCabe and Denise Riley published titles Stanley Aronowitz THE CRISIS IN HISTORICAL MATERIALISM SCIENCE AS POWER: Discourse and Ideology in Modern Society John Barrell THE BIRTH OF PANDORA and Other Essays Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen THE FREUDIAN SUBJECT Norman Bryson VISION AND PAINTING: The Logic of the Gaze Teresa de Lauretis ALICE DOESN'T: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema FEMINIST STUDIES/CRITICAL STUDIES (editor) TECHNOLOGIES OF GENDER: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction Mary Ann Doane THE DESIRE TO DESIRE: The Woman's Film of the 19405 Alan Durant CONDITIONS OF MUSIC Jane Gallop FEMINISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: The Daughter'S Seduction Peter Gidal UNDERSTANDING BECKETT: A Study of Monologue and Gesture in the Works of Samuel Beckett Peter Goodrich LEGAL DISCOURSE: Studies in Linguistics, Rhetoric and Legal Analysis Piers Gray MARGINAL MEN: Edward Thomas; Ivor Gurney; J. R. Ackerley Paul Hirst ON LAW AND IDEOLOGY Ian Hunter CULTURE AND GOVERNMENT: The Emergence of Literary Education Andreas Huyssen AFTER THE GREAT DIVIDE: Modernism, Mass Culture and Postmodernism Nigel Leask THE POLITICS OF IMAGINATION IN COLERIDGE'S CRITICAL THOUGHT Michael Lynn-George EPOS: WORD, NARRATIVE AND THE ILIAD Colin MacCabe JAMES JOYCE AND THE REVOLUTION OF THE WORD THE TALKING CURE: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Language (editor) BROKEN ENGLISH Louis Marin PORTRAIT OF THE KING Christian Metz PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CINEMA: The Imaginary Signifier Jean-Claude Milner FOR THE LOVE OF LANGUAGE Jeffrey Minson GENEALOGIES OF MORALS: Nietzsche, Foucault, Donzelot and the Eccentricity of Ethics Laura Mulvey VISUAL AND OTHER PLEASURES Douglas Oliver POETRY AND NARRATIVE IN PERFORMANCE Michel Pecheux LANGUAGE, SEMANTICS AND IDEOLOGY Jean-Michel Rabate LANGUAGE, SEXUALITY AND IDEOLOGY IN EZRA POUND'S CANTOS Denise Riley 'AM I THAT NAME?': Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History Jacqueline Rose THE CASE OF PETER PAN or THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF CHILDREN'S FICTION Brian Rotman SIGNIFYING NOTHING: The Semiotics of Zero Michael Ryan POLITICS AND CULTURE: Working Hypotheses for a Post-Revolutionary Society Raymond Tallis NOT SAUSSURE: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory David Trotter CIRCULATION: Defoe, Dickens and the Economies of the Novel THE MAKING OF THE READER: Language and Subjectivity in Modern American, English and Irish Poetry Jean-Marie Vincent ABSTRACT LABOUR: A Critique Cornel West THE AMERICAN EVASION OF PHILOSOPHY Peter Womack IMPROVEMENT AND ROMANCE: Constructing the Myth of the Highlands THE BIRTH OF PANDORA and the Division of Knowledge John Barrell M MACMILLAN ©John Barrell1992 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 1992 Published by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Barrell, John The birth of Pandora and the division of knowledge. (Language, Discourse, Society) 1. British culture, history I. Title II. Series 941 ISBN 978-0-333-48288-9 ISBN 978-0-230-37232-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230372320 For J. R. Hartley This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgements Xl Foreword xiii 1 The Private Comedy of Thomas Rowlandson 1 2 The Public Figure and the Private Eye: William Collins's 'Ode to Evening' 25 3 The Public Prospect and the Private View: The Politics of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain 41 4 'The Dangerous Goddess': Masculinity, Prestige and the Aesthetic in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain 63 5 Visualising the Division of Labour: William Pyne's Microcosm 89 6 Imaginary Treason, Imaginary Law: The State Trials of 1794 119 7 The Birth of Pandora and the Origin of Painting 145 Notes 221 References 241 Index 255 vii This page intentionally left blank List of Illustrations 1 Francis Wheatley, Evening 3 2 Francis Wheatley, Morning 3 3 George Lambert and William Hogarth, Landscape with Farmworkers 5 4 Francis Wheatley, Noon 5 5 Thomas Rowlandson, The Cottage Door 6 6 Francis Wheatley, Returning from the Fields 19 7 Thomas Rowlandson, Harvesters Resting in a Cornfield 19 8 Thomas Rowlandson, Loading Sacks into a Cart 21 9 Thomas Rowlandson, A Group of Rustics 22 10 Nicolas Tardieu, after William Kent, frontispiece to 'Spring', from James Thomson, The Seasons 35 11 Simon Gribelin, after Paolo de Matthaeis, The Judg- ment of Hercules 65 12 Venus de' Medici 69 13 W. H. Pyne and John Hill, Woodmen, plate 98 of Pyne's Microcosm 102 14 After William Gilpin, A Few Landscape-Groups, from Gilpin's Three Essays 103 15 W. H. Pyne and John Hill, Grinders, plate 14 of Pyne's Microcosm 104 16 W. H. Pyne and John Hill, Market Groups, plate 71 of Pyne's Microcosm 106 17 W. H. Pyne and John Hill, Dairy, plate 51 of Pyne's Microcosm 107 18 W. H. Pyne and John Hill, Sheep-Shearing &c, plate 45 of Pyne's Microcosm 108 19 W. H. Pyne and John Hill, Mills, plate 65 of Pyne's Microcosm 109 20 W. H. Pyne and John Hill, Pottery and Leather- Dressing, plate 10 of Pyne's Microcosm 112 21 W. H. Pyne and John Hill, Banditti, plate 60 of Pyne's Microcosm 115 22 Nicolas Dorigny, after Raphael, Deorum Concilium 146 ix
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