Aaron Hill

The Muses' Projector, 1685-1750

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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Beskrivning

During his lifetime Aaron Hill was one of the most lively cultural patrons and brokers on the London literary scene - an image hard to square with the company of undistinguished scribblers to which Pope relegated him in the Dunciad. Aaron Hill: The Muses' Projector, 1685-1750, the first biography of this fascinating figure for nearly a century, aims to correct the distorted picture of the Augustan cultural scene which Pope passed down to posterity. Hill deliberately confronted Pope in his attempt to free poetry's sublime and visionary potential from the stale platitudes of neo-classical convention. An early champion of women poets, he also enjoyed close relationships with Eliza Haywood and Martha Fowke, and brought his three writing daughters Urania, Astrea, and Minerva into close contact with his lifelong friend the novelist Samuel Richardson. In 1711 Hill, as stage manager and librettist, introduced Handel to the English stage, as well as lobbying tirelessly for innovation in the eighteenth-century theatre. His entrepreneurial energies, directed at both commercial and cultural projects, mirror the zeitgeist of early Hanoverian Britain.

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Utgivningsdatum:2003-08-07
Mått:163 x 242 x 19 mm
Vikt:551 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198183884

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Christine Gerrard is Fellow and Tutor in English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Her publications include The Patriot Opposition to Walpole: Poetry, Politics, and National Myth, 1725-1742 (OUP 1994) and, with Douglas Fairer, Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell 1999). She is editor of the forthcoming Blackwell Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry.

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Ms. Gerrard argues a strong case for a Whig style of art that was not necessarily inferior to the satirical mannerism of Pope and his allies.... Her magisterial examination of Hill covers every aspect of his existence, as adventurer (his first work was a travelogue, written at age twenty-three, through the Middle East), married man, father, lover, entrepreneur, financier, politician, and finally valetudinarian.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations ; Abbreviations ; Introduction ; 1. Hackney Apollo, 1685-1711 ; 2. Schemes and Projects, 1712-1721 ; 3. 'Heavenly Clio': the making of the Hillarian circle, 1720-1723 ; 4. The 'Scorpion Haywood': the breaking of the Hillarian circle, 1723-1725 ; 5. The Plain Dealer and the religious sublime, 1724-1728 ; 6. 'Dipt in the Dirt': Pope, cultural politics, and Grub Street, 1728-1733 ; 7. Hill and the London stage, 1731-1736 ; 8. Hill, Voltaire, and Prince Frederick, 1733-1738 ; 9. 'Essex man': Richardson and the Hill family, 1733-1738 ; 10. Patriotism, fame, and death, 1743-1750 ; Bibliography