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"This first collected edition of John Cleland's correspondence provides a rare insight into a major literary figure and his one-of-a-kind witness account of jobbing authorship in the eighteenth century. Featuring several new attributions, the volume demonstrates for the first time the extent of Cleland's participation in the European Enlightenment"--
List of contents
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; A Note on the Edition; Chronology of Cleland's Life and Works; LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Peter Sabor, Canada Research Chair at McGill University, is the co-general editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Samuel Richardson (24 vols., in progress), co-editor of Samuel Richardson in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and the editor of the Oxford World's Classic's edition of Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1985).Richard Terry was Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at Northumbria University. He was the co-editor of the Broadview edition of Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (2018) and the author of monographs including The Plagiarism Allegation in English Literature (2010), Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper (2005) and Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past (2001).Helen Williams is an Associate Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at Northumbria University and a British Academy Innovation Fellow. She is the author of Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and the co-editor, with Richard Terry, of the Broadview edition of Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (2018).
Summary
This first collected edition of John Cleland's correspondence provides a rare insight into a major literary figure and his one-of-a-kind witness account of jobbing authorship in the eighteenth century. Featuring several new attributions, the volume demonstrates for the first time the extent of Cleland's participation in the European Enlightenment.
Foreword
The first collected edition of Cleland's correspondence, providing a rare witness account of eighteenth-century jobbing authorship.
