{"product_id":"fame-and-fortune-clare-brant-9781137580535","title":"Fame and Fortune: Sir John Hill and London Life in the 1750s","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis multi-disciplinary essay collection explores the controversial life and achievements of Sir John Hill (1714-1775), a prolific contributor to Georgian England's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHill, 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 individual's intersections with his metropolis, \u003ci\u003eFame and Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e restores Hill to view and contributes new understandings of the forms and functionsof eighteenth-century intellectual worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Clare Brant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1137580534\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781137580535\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/19\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 1.19d","brand":"Clare Brant","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48742486016255,"sku":"9781137580535","price":109.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fame-and-fortune-clare-brant-9781137580535","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}