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Correspondence with George Cheyne and Thomas Edwards
Samuel Richardson
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Description for Correspondence with George Cheyne and Thomas Edwards
hardcover. First scholarly edition of Samuel Richardson's correspondence with two prominent men of the eighteenth century, Thomas Edwards and George Cheyne. Editor(s): Dussinger, John A.; May, James E.; Shuttleton, David. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson. Num Pages: 552 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1036.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
Series
The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson
Number of Pages
552
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521822855
SKU
V9780521822855
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About Samuel Richardson
David E. Shuttleton is Reader in Literature and Medical Culture at the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, where he established the Medical Humanities Research Centre. He is the recent author of Smallpox and the Literary Imagination, 1660–1820 (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and has written numerous essays specialising in literature and medicine in the long eighteenth century. John A. ... Read more
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