The salon and English letters : Chapters on the interrelations of literature and society in the age of Johnson

Name: The salon and English letters : Chapters on the interrelations of literature and society in the age of Johnson
Author: Chauncey Brewster Tinker

by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

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Project Gutenberg

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United States: The Macmillan Company, 1915.

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MWS, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Release date

2023-10-20

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century Salons -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Contemporaries

About the author

Chauncey Brewster Tinker

1876–1963

A longtime Yale professor and gifted man of letters, he helped shape the study of English literature while also building one of the university’s great rare-book traditions. Best remembered for his work on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, he brought scholarship and book collecting together in a vivid, personal way.

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