Correspondence with George Cheyne and Thomas Edwards

Correspondence with George Cheyne and Thomas Edwards

Author: Samuel Richardson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-12-19

Total Pages: 649

ISBN-13: 1107728932

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Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), among the most important and influential English novelists, was also a prolific letter writer. Beyond its extraordinary range, his correspondence holds special interest as that of a practising epistolary novelist, who thought long and hard about the letter as a form. The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson is the first complete edition of his letters. The present volume contains his correspondences with Dr George Cheyne and Thomas Edwards, linked not only by their pronounced medical content but also by their generally unguarded character. An early admirer of Richardson's Pamela (1740–41), Cheyne elicits some of the novelist's most significant statements concerning his own literary practice and tastes. Edwards, an astute literary critic as well as notable sonneteer, draws Richardson into expressing some remarkable insights as a close reader of poetry and prose.


Correspondence with George Cheyne and Thomas Edwards

Correspondence with George Cheyne and Thomas Edwards

Author: Samuel Richardson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-12-19

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 9780521822855

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Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), among the most important and influential English novelists, was also a prolific letter writer. Beyond its extraordinary range, his correspondence holds special interest as that of a practising epistolary novelist, who thought long and hard about the letter as a form. The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson is the first complete edition of his letters. The present volume contains his correspondences with Dr George Cheyne and Thomas Edwards, linked not only by their pronounced medical content but also by their generally unguarded character. An early admirer of Richardson's Pamela (1740-41), Cheyne elicits some of the novelist's most significant statements concerning his own literary practice and tastes. Edwards, an astute literary critic as well as notable sonneteer, draws Richardson into expressing some remarkable insights as a close reader of poetry and prose.


Correspondence with George Cheyne

Correspondence with George Cheyne

Author: Samuel Richardson

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781139024464

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Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), among the most important and influential English novelists, was also a prolific letter writer. Beyond its extraordinary range, his correspondence holds special interest as that of a practising epistolary novelist, who thought long and hard about the letter as a form. The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson is the first complete edition of his letters. The present volume contains his correspondences with Dr George Cheyne and Thomas Edwards, linked not only by their pronounced medical content but also by their generally unguarded character. An early admirer of Richardson's Pamela (1740-41), Cheyne elicits some of the novelist's most significant statements concerning his own literary practice and tastes. Edwards, an astute literary critic as well as notable sonneteer, draws Richardson into expressing some remarkable insights as a close reader of poetry and prose.


Aesthetic Science

Aesthetic Science

Author: Alexander Wragge-Morley

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2020-04-20

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 022668086X

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The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symbolic and moral goals of Renaissance natural history in favor of plainly representing the world as it really was. In Aesthetic Science, Alexander Wragge-Morley challenges this interpretation by arguing that key figures such as John Ray, Robert Boyle, Nehemiah Grew, Robert Hooke, and Thomas Willis saw the study of nature as an aesthetic project. To show how early modern naturalists conceived of the interplay between sensory experience and the production of knowledge, Aesthetic Science explores natural-historical and anatomical works of the Royal Society through the lens of the aesthetic. By underscoring the importance of subjective experience to the communication of knowledge about nature, Wragge-Morley offers a groundbreaking reconsideration of scientific representation in the early modern period and brings to light the hitherto overlooked role of aesthetic experience in the history of the empirical sciences.


Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture

Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture

Author: Betty A. Schellenberg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-06-06

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1316589307

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Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture offers the first study of manuscript-producing coteries as an integral element of eighteenth-century Britain's literary culture. As a corrective to literary histories assuming that the dominance of print meant the demise of a vital scribal culture, the book profiles four interrelated and influential coteries, focusing on each group's deployment of traditional scribal practices, on key individuals who served as bridges between networks, and on the aesthetic and cultural work performed by the group. The book also explores points of intersection between coteries and the print trade, whether in the form of individuals who straddled the two cultures; publishing events in which the two media regimes collaborated or came into conflict; literary conventions adapted from manuscript practice to serve the ends of print; or simply poetry hand-copied from magazines. Together, these instances demonstrate how scribal modes shaped modern literary production. This title is also available as Open Access.


Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Author: Hilary Havens

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-08-29

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1108493858

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Recovers and analyzes novel manuscripts and post-publication revisions to construct a new narrative about eighteenth-century authorship.


Literature and Medicine: Volume 1

Literature and Medicine: Volume 1

Author: Clark Lawlor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-06-24

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1108368980

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Offering an authoritative and timely account of the relationship between literature and medicine in the eighteenth century and Romantic period, a time when most diseases had no cure, this collection provides a valuable overview of how two dynamic fields influenced and shaped one another. Covering a period in which both medicine and literature underwent frequent and sometimes radical change, the volume examines the complex mutual construction of these two fields via various perspectives: disability, gender, race, rank, sexuality, the global and colonial, politics, ethics, and the visual. Diseases, fashionable and otherwise, such as Defoe's representation of the plague, feature strongly, as authors argue for the role literary genres play in affecting people's experience of physical and mental illness (and health) across the volume. Along with its sister publication, Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century, this volume offers a major critical overview of the study of literature and medicine.


Literature and Medicine

Literature and Medicine

Author: Clark Lawlor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-06-24

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1108420869

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Offers an authoritative account of literature and medicine at a vital point in their emergence during the eighteenth century.


The Afterlife of Shakespeare's Sonnets

The Afterlife of Shakespeare's Sonnets

Author: Jane Kingsley-Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-08-29

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1107170656

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An original account of the reception and influence of Shakespeare's Sonnets in his own time and in later literary history.


The First Scottish Enlightenment

The First Scottish Enlightenment

Author: Kelsey Jackson Williams

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-02-25

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 0192537598

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Traditional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment present the half-century or so before 1750 as, at best, a not-yet fully realised precursor to the era of Hume and Smith, at worst, a period of superstition and religious bigotry. This is the first book-length study to systematically challenge that notion. Instead, it argues that the era between approximately 1680 and 1745 was a 'First' Scottish Enlightenment, part of the continent-wide phenomenon of early Enlightenment and led by the Jacobites, Episcopalians, and Catholics of north-eastern Scotland. It makes this argument through an intensive study of the dramatic changes in historiographical practice which took place in Scotland during this era, showing how the documentary scholarship of Jean Mabillon and the Maurists was eagerly received and rapidly developed in Scottish historical circles, resulting in the wholesale demolition of the older, Humanist myths of Scottish origins and their replacement with the foundations of our modern understanding of early Scottish history. This volume accordingly challenges many of the truisms surrounding seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish history, pushing back against notions of pre-Enlightenment Scotland as backward, insular, and intellectually impoverished and mapping a richly polymathic, erudite, and transnational web of scholars, readers, and polemicists. It highlights the enduring cultural links with France and argues for the central importance of Scotland's two principal religious minorities--Episcopalians and Catholics--in the growth of Enlightenment thinking. As such, it makes a major intervention in the intellectual and cultural histories of Scotland, early modern Europe, and the Enlightenment itself.