Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781108474382 |
| ISBN10: | 1108474381 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 456 pages |
| Size: | 236x160x27 mm |
| Weight: | 850 g |
| Language: | English |
| 738 |
Category:
The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of John Cleland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 13 June 2024
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Short description:
The first collected edition of Cleland's correspondence, providing a rare witness account of eighteenth-century jobbing authorship.
Long description:
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.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; A Note on the Edition; Chronology of Cleland's Life and Works; LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
