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1st ed. 2017, XVI, 304 p. 30 illus. A product of Palgrave Macmillan UK Printed book Hardcover 99,99 € | £74.50 | $109.00 *106,99 € (D) | 109,99 € (A) | CHF 110.00 eBook Available from your library or palgrave.com MyCopy Printed eBook for just € | $ 24.99 springer.com/mycopy Order online at palgrave.com or for the Americas call (toll free) 1-800-SPRINGER or email us at: [email protected]. For outside the Americas call +49 (0) 6221-345-4301 or email us at: [email protected]. The first € price and the £ and $ price are net prices, subject to local VAT. Prices indicated with * include VAT for books; the €(D) includes 7% for Germany, the €(A) includes 10% for Austria. Prices indicated with ** include VAT for electronic products; 19% for Germany, 20% for Austria. All prices exclusive of carriage charges. Prices and other details are subject to change without notice. All errors and omissions excepted. Clare Brant, George Rousseau (Eds.) Fame and Fortune Sir John Hill and London Life in the 1750s Examines the intellectual world of 1750s London through the prism of the controversial figure Sir John Hill, building upon Rousseau’s important biography Presents the 1750s as an important decade in their own right, as a time of broad metropolitan transformations in response to new knowledge and a burgeoning intellectual city life Grants scholars a deeper understanding of the role played by ‘celebrity’ figures in forming intellectual Georgian London This multi-disciplinary essay collection explores the controversial life and achievements of Sir John Hill (1714–1775), the prolific contributor to Georgian England’s literature, medicine and science. By the time he died, he had been knighted by the Swedish monarch and become a household name among scientists and writers throughout Britain and Europe. Hill, an important writer of urban space, also helped define London through his periodicals and fictions. As well as examining his significance and achievements, his vilification and rise to celebrity, this book makes Hill a means of exploring the lively intellectual and public world of London in the 1750s where rivalries abounded, and where clubs, societies, coffee-houses, theatres and pleasure gardens shaped fame and fortunes. By investigating one individual’s intersections with his metropolis, Fame and Fortune restores Hill to view and contributes new understandings of the forms and functions of eighteenth-century intellectual worlds. Clare Brant is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture at King’s College London, UK, where she also co-directs the Centre for Life-Writing Research. She is the author of Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture which won the European Society for the Study of English Book Award in 2008. George Rousseau of the University of Oxford, UK, is the author of Nervous Acts: Essays on and The Notorious Sir John Hill: The Man Destroyed by Ambition in the Age of Celebrity.

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Page 1: Fame and Fortune - ASECS Announcements/Fame and Fortune... · gardens shaped fame and fortunes. By investigating one individual’s intersections with his metropolis, Fame and Fortune

1st ed. 2017, XVI, 304 p. 30 illus.

A product of Palgrave Macmillan UK

Printed book

Hardcover▶ 99,99 € | £74.50 | $109.00▶ *106,99 € (D) | 109,99 € (A) | CHF 110.00

eBook

Available from your library or▶ palgrave.com

MyCopy

Printed eBook for just▶ € | $ 24.99▶ springer.com/mycopy

Order online at palgrave.com ▶ or for the Americas call (toll free) 1-800-SPRINGER ▶ or email us at: [email protected]. ▶ For outside the Americas call +49 (0) 6221-345-4301 ▶ or email us at: [email protected].

The first € price and the £ and $ price are net prices, subject to local VAT. Prices indicated with * include VAT for books; the €(D) includes 7% forGermany, the €(A) includes 10% for Austria. Prices indicated with ** include VAT for electronic products; 19% for Germany, 20% for Austria. All pricesexclusive of carriage charges. Prices and other details are subject to change without notice. All errors and omissions excepted.

Clare Brant, George Rousseau (Eds.)

Fame and FortuneSir John Hill and London Life in the 1750s

▶ Examines the intellectual world of 1750s London through the prismof the controversial figure Sir John Hill, building upon Rousseau’simportant biography

▶ Presents the 1750s as an important decade in their own right, asa time of broad metropolitan transformations in response to newknowledge and a burgeoning intellectual city life

▶ Grants scholars a deeper understanding of the role played by‘celebrity’ figures in forming intellectual Georgian London

This multi-disciplinary essay collection explores the controversial life and achievements of Sir John Hill (1714–1775), the prolific contributor to Georgian England’s literature, medicine and science. By the time he died, he had been knighted by the Swedish monarch and become a household name among scientists and writers throughout Britain and Europe.

Hill, an important writer of urban space, also helped define London through his periodicals and fictions. As well as examining his significance and achievements, his vilification and rise to celebrity, this book makes Hill a means of exploring the lively intellectual and public world of London in the 1750s where rivalries abounded, and where clubs, societies, coffee-houses, theatres and pleasure gardens shaped fame and fortunes. By investigating one individual’s intersections with his metropolis, Fame and Fortune restores Hill to view and contributes new understandings of the forms and functions of eighteenth-century intellectual worlds.

Clare Brant is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture at King’s College London, UK, where she also co-directs the Centre for Life-Writing Research. She is the author of Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture which won the European Society for the Study of English Book Award in 2008.

George Rousseau of the University of Oxford, UK, is the author of Nervous Acts: Essays on and The Notorious Sir John Hill: The Man Destroyed by Ambition in the Age of Celebrity.