Fame and Fortune

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<p>This multi-disciplinary essay collection explores the controversial life and achievements of Sir John Hill (17141775), a prolific contributor to Georgian Englands literature, medicine and science. By the time he died, he had been knighted by the Swedish monarch and become a household name among scientists and writers throughout Britain and Europe. In 1750s London he was a celebrity, but he was also widely vilified.</p><p>Hill, an important writer of urban space, also helped define London through his periodicals and fictions. As well as examining his significance and achievements, this book makes Hill a means of exploring the lively intellectual and public world of London in the 1750s where rivalries abounded, and where clubs, societies, coffee-houses, theatres and pleasure gardens shaped fame and fortunes. By investigating one individuals intersections with his metropolis,<i>Fame and Fortune</i> restores Hill to view and contributes new understandings of the forms and functionsof eighteenth-century intellectual worlds.</p>

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<p>Clare Brant is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture at King¿s College London, UK, where she also co-directs the Centre for Life-Writing Research. She is the author of <i>Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture</i> which won the European Society for the Study of English Book Award in 2008.</p><p>George Rousseau of the University of Oxford, UK,  is the author of <i>Nervous Acts: Essays on</i> and <i>The Notorious Sir John Hill: The Man Destroyed by Ambition in the Age of Celebrity.</i></p>

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