Klik på en miniature for at gå til Google Books
Indlæser... Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Centuryaf John Nichols
Ingen Indlæser...
Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. lst edition thus, 525pp, fine in dw. A bulky selection from the 6580 pages of the original work. Prints some 80 essays on major & obscure 18th century writers, booksellers, publishers, printers, literary hacks etc. etc. Subjects include the Lintots, John Dunton, James Dodsley, Edward Cave, John Taylr, Elkanah Settle etc. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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 9 contains anecdotes of Erasmus Darwin and John Wilkes, among many others, with additional material on the subjects of the earlier volumes. No library descriptions found. |
Current DiscussionsIngen
Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)820.9005Literature English & Old English literatures English literature in more than one form History, description, critical appraisal of works in more than one formLC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
Er det dig?Bliv LibraryThing-forfatter. |