Author: James James Lowry CliffordPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452911564
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Samuel Johnson
Author: James James Lowry CliffordPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452911564
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
The Literary Guide and Rationalist Review
Author: William Blackstone
Author: Wilfrid PrestPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199652015
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Lawyer, politician, poet, teacher and architect, William Blackstone was a major figure in 18th century public life, and pivotal in the history of law. Despite the influence of his work, Blackstone the man remains little known. This book, Blackstone's first scholarly biography, sheds light on the life, work, and society of a neglected figure.
Dr Johnson's Friend and Robert Adam's Client Topham Beauclerk
Author: David NoyPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443893250
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Dr Johnson said that he would walk to the ends of the earth to save Beauclerk. Other people who claimed to be his friends rejoiced at his early death. How did the beautiful youth of Francis Coates’ 1756 portrait become a man whose greatest claim to fame was causing an infestation of lice at Blenheim Palace through lack of personal hygiene? A great-grandson of Charles II and Nell Gwyn, he lived a privileged life thanks to fortuitously inherited wealth. He employed Robert Adam to build him a house at Muswell Hill which has almost completely disappeared from the records of Adam’s work due to a dispute about the bill. He was one of the leading book-collectors of the time, with a library of 30,000 volumes whose sale after his death was a major literary event. He also used his wealth to indulge interests in science and astronomy and a passion for gambling. As a result, he ran through his inheritance as quickly as he could sell it, falling into ever-increasing debt as his lawyer grew richer. Beauclerk knew all the leading figures of the British and French Enlightenments. He was a friend of Johnson, Adam Smith, David Hume, Horace Walpole, Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Wilkes and David Garrick. He met Rousseau and Voltaire, and immersed himself in French salon culture. He could charm people when he chose to, but did not always try. Recently he has been overshadowed by his wife, Lady Di (née Spencer), whose life by Carola Hicks (Improper Pursuits, 2001) has made her artistic talent and unconventional life well-known. The story of their adultery and marriage has not previously been told from Beauclerk’s point of view, and many other inaccuracies have crept into authoritative works such as the ODNB; he is regularly and unfairly dismissed as a bad husband. This biography shows that he was much more than the close associate of Johnson known from the pages of Boswell: a man of widely varied interests, from the Grand Tour to the contemporary theatre, who lived Enlightenment life to the full in a way which would not have been possible a generation earlier or later. Based on research in unpublished letters, legal documents and financial records, including some concerning the Adam house, as well as published diaries, letters and memoirs, it shows that he may have left no enduring legacy of his many talents, as even his friends admitted, but he made the most of all the opportunities available and lived a fascinating life which illuminates every aspect of Georgian elite society, from auctions to zoology, from care of one’s wig to building an observatory, and from mishaps in Venice to sea-therapy in Brighton.
MLN.
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.
Johnsonian Gleanings
Author: Aleyn Lyell ReadeMonthly Bulletin
Author: St. Louis Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
"Teachers' bulletin", vol. 4- issued as part of v. 23, no. 9-
The New Statesman
Author: The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
Author: English Literature, Volume 1
Author: Louis A. LandaPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400877326
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
This is the first of two volumes which will make available in convenient form the annual bibliographies of 18th century scholarship published for the past 25 years in the Philological Quarterly. Volume 1 includes the years 1926-1938. By means of lithography the original issues are exactly reproduced with retention of all critical annotations. Originally published in 1950. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.