John Dunton

The Life and Errors of John Dunton, Citizen of London 2 Volume Set

With the Lives and Characters of More Than a Thousand Contemporary Divines and Other Persons of Literary Eminence
Herausgeber: Nichols, John

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Produktbeschreibung

This two-volume work, published in 1705 and reissued in its 1818 edition, contains an early example of English autobiographical writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 822
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 51mm
• Gewicht: 957g
• ISBN-13: 9781108074063
• ISBN-10: 1108074065
• Artikelnr.: 40871211

Inhaltsangabe

Volume 1: Memoirs of the author
John Dunton's life and errors
1. From his birth to his fifteenth year
2. An idea of a new life
3. Life and errors
4. Idea of a new life
5. Of bachelorship
6. Idea of a new life
7. Life and errors from the day of his marriage
8. Idea of a new life
9. Brief characters of some eminent persons
10. The after-thought. Volume 2: 11. Dunton's journal, part 2
12. The living elegy
13. Dunton's shadow
14. Extracts from The Dublin Scuffle
Extracts from Dunton's Athenian project
Extracts for Mordecai's memorial
An appeal to King George I
List of Dunton's political tracts
Analysis of his MSS preserved in Dr Rawlinson's collections in the Bodleian Library.