British literary salons of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries is a comprehensive study of the British salon between the 1780s and the 1840s. Using a number of sources - diaries, letters, silver-fork novels, satires, travel writing, Keepsakes, and imaginary conversations - this study...
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Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
Language: | English |
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Nineteenth century major lives and letters
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Subjects: |
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
> English
> c 1800 to c 1900
> c 1800 to c 1900
> United Kingdom, Great Britain.
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Online Access: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137063748 |
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British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries is a comprehensive study of the British salon between the 1780s and the 1840s. Using a number of sources - diaries, letters, silver-fork novels, satires, travel writing, Keepsakes, and imaginary conversations - this study establishes sociable networks of days gone by. |
Item Description: |
Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230110656, 2013. |
Carrier Form: | 272 p. |
ISBN: |
9780230110656 9781137063748 : 1137063742 : |
CLC: | I561.064 |
Contents: | 1. Traditions and Theories 2. Mary Berry and Her British Spaces 3. Mary Berry as a Learned Woman: Out of the Closet 4. Holland House and Lady Holland 5. The Holland House Set 6. The Countess of Blessington as Hostess 7. The Countess of Blessington as Writer and Editor. |