Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of John Cleland

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av John Cleland, Peter Sabor, Richard Terry, Helen Williams

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The first collected edition of John Cleland's correspondence, this volume provides a rare insight into a significant literary life and into jobbing authorship in the eighteenth century. All known letters by and to Cleland are included entire, alongside letter excerpts, diary entries and documents in which he is discussed by friends, enemies, family members and distant acquaintances. The volume also includes Cleland's christening record, a manuscript essay composed by Cleland in French on 'Litterateurs', and the will of Cleland's mother Lucy, whose many codicils reveal her determination to prevent her profligate son from squandering her fortune. Interspersed throughout are telling remarks about Cleland from figures such as Alexander Pope, Samuel Foote, Claude-Pierre Patu, and, most revealing and intriguing of all, vignettes by the great biographer James Boswell. The volume makes several new attributions and demonstrates for the first time the extent of Cleland's participation in the European Enlightenment.

Produktinformation

  • Utgivningsdatum2024-06-13
  • Mått160 x 236 x 27 mm
  • Vikt850 g
  • SpråkEngelska
  • Antal sidor456
  • FörlagCambridge University Press
  • EAN9781108474382