Fame and Fortune Sir John Hill and London Life in the 1750s /

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
مؤلف مشترك: SpringerLink (Online service)
مؤلفون آخرون: Brant, Clare (المحرر), Rousseau, George (المحرر)
الملخص:XXIII, 350 p. 30 illus.
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اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
الطبعة:1st ed. 2018.
الموضوعات:
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58054-2
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
جدول المحتويات:
  • 1 Introduction; Clare Brant and George Rousseau
  • I HILL & LIVES
  •  2 The Biographer’s Tale: Second Thoughts of a Biographer; George Rousseau
  • 3    The Propagation of Lives: Sir John Who?; Clare Brant
  • 4 Sir John Hill and Friendship; Emrys Jones
  • II HILL & LITERATURE.-  5 John Hill and Mary Cooper: A Case Study in Eighteenth-Century Publishing; Beverley Schneller
  • 6 “The Ravished Organs of the Attentive Audience”: John Hill and Christopher Smart; Min Wild
  • 7  “Unassisted Hill”: Churchill’s Satire and the Fate of the Virtuoso; Adam Rounce
  • 8 The Erotic Satires of Sir John Hill; Julie Peakman
  • III HILL & PUBLIC PLACES.-  9 The Doctor as Man of Letters:  mid-Georgian Transformations; George Rousseau
  •  10 Coffee-house Sociability, Science and Public Life in John Hill’s The Inspector; Markman Ellis
  • 11 The Inspector at Large: Sir John Hill’s Interrogation of London Space; Chris Ewers.-IV HILL & SCIENCES
  • 12 A Dwarf on Giant’s Shoulders: Hill the Geologist; Christopher J.  Duffin
  • 13 Sir John Hill as Botanist: The Vegetable System; Brent Elliott
  • 14   John Hill, Exotic Botany and the Competitive World of Eighteenth-Century Horticulture; Sarah Easterby-Smith.