The Works of the Late Aaron Hill, Esq; In Four Volumes. ... of 4; Volume 2

The Works of the Late Aaron Hill, Esq; In Four Volumes. ... of 4; Volume 2
Author: Aaron Hill
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781379375753

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T107059 With a list of subscribers in vol. 1. London: printed for the benefit of the family, 1753. 4v.; 8°

Aaron Hill

Aaron Hill
Author: Christine Gerrard
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780198183884

During his lifetime Aaron Hill was one of the most lively cultural patrons and brokers on the London literary scene - an image hard to square with the company of undistinguished scribblers to which Pope relegated him in the Dunciad. Aaron Hill: The Muses' Projector, 1685-1750, the firstbiography of this fascinating figure for nearly a century, aims to correct the distorted picture of the Augustan cultural scene which Pope passed down to posterity. Hill deliberately confronted Pope in his attempt to free poetry's sublime and visionary potential from the stale platitudes ofneo-classical convention. An early champion of women poets, he also enjoyed close relationships with Eliza Haywood and Martha Fowke, and brought his three writing daughters Urania, Astrea, and Minerva into close contact with his lifelong friend the novelist Samuel Richardson. In 1711 Hill, as stagemanager and librettist, introduced Handel to the English stage, as well as lobbying tirelessly for innovation in the eighteenth-century theatre. His entrepreneurial energies, directed at both commercial and cultural projects, mirror the zeitgeist of early Hanoverian Britain.

Great Shakespeareans Set II

Great Shakespeareans Set II
Author: Adrian Poole
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 868
Release: 2011-03-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1441184481

The second set of volumes in the eighteen-volume series Great Shakespeareans, covering the work of nineteen key figures who influenced the global understanding of Shakespeare

Intimate Strangers

Intimate Strangers
Author: Vanessa Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2010-10-28
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0521437512

A fascinating study of the importance of ideas of friendship in late eighteenth-century explorations of the Pacific.

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I, Volume 3

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I, Volume 3
Author: Gail Marshall
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040250378

Focuses on David Garrick and the leading actors of his company at Drury Lane. This book tells how, in their time, Garrick, Macklin and Woffington were as famous for their achievements on the stage as they were infamous for their activities off it. It draws a selection of the actors' own words with those of their contemporaries and critics.

Samuel Richardson and the Art of Letter-Writing

Samuel Richardson and the Art of Letter-Writing
Author: Louise Curran
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2016-03-17
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1107131510

Examines Samuel Richardson's letters and novels, and explores the interconnection between fiction and correspondence in eighteenth-century literature.

The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Author: Peter A. Coclanis
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2020-05-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1643361058

The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries is a collection of essays focusing on the expansion, elaboration, and increasing integration of the economy of the Atlantic basin—comprising parts of Europe, West Africa, and the Americas—during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In thirteen essays, the contributors examine the complex and variegated processes by which markets were created in the Atlantic basin and how they became integrated. While a number of the contributors focus on the economic history of a specific European imperial system, others, mirroring the realities of the world they are writing about, transcend imperial boundaries and investigate topics shared throughout the region. In the latter case, the contributors focus either on processes occurring along the margins or interstices of empires, or on "breaches" in the colonial systems established by various European powers. Taken together, the essays shed much-needed light on the organization and operation of both the European imperial orders of the early modern era and the increasingly integrated economy of the Atlantic basin challenging these orders over the course of the same period.

Restoration and Eighteenth-century Dramatists

Restoration and Eighteenth-century Dramatists
Author: Paula R. Backscheider
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1989
Genre: Dramatists, English
ISBN: 9780810345621

Focuses on English playwrights born between 1670 and 1727, whose careers flourished during one of the golden eras of British theater.