Correspondence With George Cheyne and Thomas Edwards

First scholarly edition of Samuel Richardson's correspondence with two prominent men of the eighteenth century, Thomas Edwards and George Cheyne.

List of contents

General editors' preface; Chronology; General introduction; Richardson's correspondence with George Cheyne; Richardson's correspondence with Thomas Edwards; Appendices.

About the author

David E. Shuttleton is Reader in Literature and Medical Culture at the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, where he established the Medical Humanities Research Centre. He is the recent author of Smallpox and the Literary Imagination, 1660–1820 (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and has written numerous essays specialising in literature and medicine in the long eighteenth century.John A. Dussinger is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Illinois where he taught for 36 years. He is author of The Discourse of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1974) and In the Pride of the Moment: Encounters in Jane Austen's World (1990), and has written numerous articles and reviews on iconic writers such as Swift, Shaftesbury, Locke, Hume, Middleton, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith, Johnson and Austen.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Richardson
• Assisted by: John A Dussinger (Editor), John A. Dussinger (Editor), John A. (University of Illinois Dussinger (Editor), Dussinger John A. (Editor), James E. May (Editor), David Shuttleton (Editor), David E Shuttleton (Editor), David E. Shuttleton (Editor), David E. (University of Glasgow) Shuttleton (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.12.2013
• EAN: 9780521822855
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82285-5
• No. of pages: 552
• Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson; Cambridge Edition of the Corre; Cambridge Edition of the Corre; The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form