Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century

Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer, Printer, F.S.A., and Many of His Learned Friends
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-108-07412-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 554 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 772 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies

In this nine-volume work, published between 1812 and 1815, the author and publisher John Nichols (1745–1826) provides biographical notes on publishers, writers and artists of the eighteenth century, and also gives 'an incidental view of the progress and advancement of literature in this kingdom during the last century'. (A shorter version had been published in 1782.) His subjects range from the publisher William Bowyer to Henry Fielding and Horace Walpole, and also include histories of individual publishing houses and of genres such as lexicography. The work remains a useful source of biographical material on authors and publishers at a period when many of the literary genres we take for granted, such as the novel, the autobiography and the analytical history, were first being developed. Volume 6 includes essays on the Gentlemen's Society at Spalding and the Society of Antiquaries, as well as many individual memoirs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nichols, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Buchgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Account of the Gentlemen's Society at Spalding; List of members; History of the Peterborough Society; Letters on the origin of the Society of Antiquaries in London; Memoirs of literary persons; Brief memoirs of the author of these volumes; Additions and corrections.