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An account of...William Cullen: John Thomson and the making of a medical biography
No full textJohn Thomson’s An Account of the Life, Lectures and Writings of William Cullen (1832; 1859) remains a primary source for the career of the most influential academic physician in eighteenth-century Scotland and is also a significant work of medical history. But this multi-authored text, begun around 1810 by the academic surgeon, John Thomson, but only completed in 1859 by Dr David Craigie, has its own complex history. This chapter addresses what this history can reveal about the development of medical biography as a literary genre. It argues that the Account is a hybrid work shaped by a complex array of practical, domestic, intellectual, and professional pressures, as Thomson, in seeking to bolster his own career, was caught between the demands of Cullen’s children for a traditional “Life” and his own more theoretical and socio-cultural interests
The Eighteenth Century
No full textThis chapter has three sections: 1. General and Prose; 2. The Novel; 3. Poetry. Section 1 is by Eliza O’Brien; section 2 is by Elles Smallegoor and Sandro Jung; section 3 is by David E. Shuttleton
The Eighteenth Century
No full textThis chapter has four sections: 1. Prose and General; 2. The Novel; 3. Poetry; 4. Drama. Section 1 is by Steven Lynn; section 2 is by Elles Smallegoor; section 3 is by David Shuttleton; section 4 is by Marjean Purinton
The Eighteenth Century
No full textThis chapter has four sections: 1. General and Prose, 2. The Novel, 3. Poetry and 4. Drama. Section 1 is by Eliza O’Brien; section 2 is by Sandro Jung; section 3 is by David Shuttleton; and section 4 is by Chrisy Denni
Women and poetry, 1660-1750
No full textThe specially commissioned essays in <i>Women and Poetry, 1660-1750</i> address the multiplicity of female poetic practice and the public image of the woman poet between the Restoration and mid-eighteenth century. The volume includes biographically informative accounts of individual poets alongside detailed essays that discuss the different contexts and poetic traditions shaping women's poetry in this key period in literary history. <i>Women and Poetry, 1660-1750</i> draws together a wealth of recent scholarship from a strong cast of contributors (including Germaine Greer) into one accessible volume aimed at both students and specialist readers
Women and poetry, 1660-1750
No full textThe specially commissioned essays in <i>Women and Poetry, 1660-1750</i> address the multiplicity of female poetic practice and the public image of the woman poet between the Restoration and mid-eighteenth century. The volume includes biographically informative accounts of individual poets alongside detailed essays that discuss the different contexts and poetic traditions shaping women's poetry in this key period in literary history. <i>Women and Poetry, 1660-1750</i> draws together a wealth of recent scholarship from a strong cast of contributors (including Germaine Greer) into one accessible volume aimed at both students and specialist readers
The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson: Correspondence With George Cheyne and Thomas Edwards
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