Fame and fortune Sir John Hill and London life in the 1750s

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 a...

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Weitere Verfasser: Brant, Clare (HerausgeberIn), Rousseau, G. S. (HerausgeberIn)
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Veröffentlicht: London, United Kingdom Palgrave Macmillan 2018
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Zusammenfassung: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 Giant́'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
Beschreibung:xxiii, 350 Seiten
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22 cm
ISBN:1137580534
1-137-58053-4
9781137580535
978-1-137-58053-5