The Cambridge edition of the correspondence of John Cleland:

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 documen...

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Main Author: Cleland, John 1709-1789 (Author)
Other Authors: Sabor, Peter 1949- (Editor), Terry, Richard 1962- (Editor), Williams, Helen 1986- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2024
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Summary: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
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 May 2024)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 430 Seiten)
ISBN:9781108694131
DOI:10.1017/9781108694131

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