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Author: Thomas Percy (bp. of Dromore.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Letters from Thomas Percy ... John Callander ... David Herd, and others, to George Paton [ed. by J. Maidment].
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Author: Thomas Percy (bp. of Dromore.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Letters from Thomas Percy
Author: Thomas Percy
Author: Bertram H. DavisPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 151280164X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
The Percy Letters: The correspondence of Thomas Percy & Richard Farmer, edited by Cleanth Brooks
Author: Thomas PercyPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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The Percy Letters: The correspondence of Thomas Percy & Edmond Malone, edited by Arthur Tillotson
Author: Thomas PercyPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Index of English Literary Manuscripts
Author: Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 072012283X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This volume, the third in the series, discusses the works of 11 British 18th-century writers, providing information on the nature of the MS, date, variant title(s), state of completion, provenance and location, date and first form of publication, any scholarly use of the MS, and the existence of any published facsimiles. Information is drawn from material in libraries, record offices and private collections throughout the world. The listing of each author's manuscripts is preceded by an introduction. The book records many hitherto unrecorded manuscripts.
Half-hours with the Best Letter-writers and Autobiographers
Author: Charles KnightPublisher:
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Category : Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay
Author: Fanny BurneyPublisher:
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Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Diary and letters of Madame d'Arblay (1778-1840)
Author: Frances Burney d' ArblayPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Sir Robert Chambers
Author: Thomas M. CurleyPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299151508
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Sir Robert Chambers (1737-1803) was a literary as well as a legal man. Friend and collaborator of Samuel Johnson, professor of English law at Oxford University, and one of the four judges on the first Supreme Court of India, Chambers was an enormously influential figure in the eighteenth-century British empire. This book is the first authoritative biography of Chambers and is also the first major contribution in decades to historical scholarship on Johnson. It demonstrates Chambers's important role in early English legal education, in Samuel Johnson's life and political thinking, and in the formation of British India during a period of active cultural exchange between East and West. The cooperation of Chambers's descendants and the discovery of all his judicial notebooks have given Curley access to a splendid archival collection of rare documents about Sir Robert's private life and public career. Curley adds important dimensions to political and legal history by recounting the establishment of the Vinerian Chair of English law at Oxford University and by documenting long-hidden activities, motives, and decisions in the stormy foundation of British India, beginning with Chambers's farsighted role in the century's most infamous criminal case, the prosecution of Maharajah Nuncomar in 1775. Sir Robert Chambers is the first analysis of Chambers's groundbreaking commingling of English law and Indian practice, as detailed in seventy-two volumes of his judicial notebooks recovered in Calcutta. As an Indian judge, Chambers founded the enduring hybrid heritage of Anglo-Indian law on which the modern constitution of the Republic of India still rests. This book also provides the first full account of Chambers's close friendship with Samuel Johnson and their collaboration on a survey of the British constitution, which profoundly influenced the later writings of both men. Curley reveals Johnson's literary and political interest in India, and his call for encyclopedic study of the East by the West, a call heeded by Chambers and Sir William Jones in founding the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Amassing the largest library of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Western World, Chambers contributed significantly to European awareness of the riches of ancient Indian literature. Lively and readable, this authoritative biography examines the relationships and activities of prominent men in eighteenth-century England, and it supplements Curley's two-volume edition of Chambers's and Johnson's A Course of Lectures on the English Law. It will interest readers curious about multiculturalism--two centuries before the term existed--as it developed under the British empire. All scholars of legal and literary history and of Asian and British studies, as well as lovers of biography, should relish this absorbing and well-researched history.