The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of John Cleland
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- Real Author: John Cleland
- Date Published: June 2024
- availability: In stock
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108474382
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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.
Read more- Collects all available primary material about a significant literary life into a single authoritative volume, incorporating hitherto unknown sources about Cleland's life and works and translating several sources from Portuguese and French into English
- Provides a rare insight into the life of a jobbing author working in English and French in the eighteenth century
- Makes multiple new attributions and demonstrates for the first time the extent of Cleland's participation in the European Enlightenment
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- Date Published: June 2024
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108474382
- length: 456 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 160 x 27 mm
- weight: 0.85kg
- availability: In stock
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.
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