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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Brant, Clare (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Rousseau, George (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Great Britain-History.; History.; Medicine-History.; Civilization-History.; History of Britain and Ireland.; History of Science.; History of Medicine.; Cultural History.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.