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

This multi-disciplinary essay collection explores the controversial life and achievements of Sir John Hill (1714-1775), the prolific contributor to Georgian England's literature, medicine and science. By the time he died, he had been knighted by the Swedish monarch and become a household name a...

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Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
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Great Britain-History.
History.
Medicine-History.
Civilization-History.
ISBN:9781137580542
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Obsah:
  • 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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