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

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Brant, Clare (Editor), Rousseau, George (Editor)
Summary:	XXIII, 350 p. 30 illus. text
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:	1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:	Great Britain > History. Science > History. Medicine > History. Civilization > History. History of Britain and Ireland. History of Science. History of Medicine. Cultural History.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58054-2
Format:	Electronic Book

Table of Contents:

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.

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