Fame and fortune : Sir John Hill and London life in the 1750s /: Sir John Hill and London life in the 1750s. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Clare Brant, George Rousseau.
• Editors: Brant, Clare, 1960-; Rousseau, G. S (George Sebastian)
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 942.107092; History; Medicine; Science -- History; Medical -- History; History -- Social History; History of science; History of medicine; Social & cultural history; History -- Europe -- Great Britain; British & Irish history; Great Britain-History; Civilization-History; London (England) -- Civilization -- 18th century; London (England) -- Biography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137580542
• Related ISBNs: 9781137580535
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