{"product_id":"fame-and-fortune-9781137580535","title":"Fame and Fortune","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis multi-disciplinary essay collection explores the controversial life and achievements of Sir John Hill (1714–1775), a prolific contributor to Georgian England’s literature, medicine and science. By the time he died, he had been knighted by the Swedish monarch and become a household name among scientists and writers throughout Britain and Europe. In 1750s London he was a celebrity, but he was also widely vilified.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHill, an important writer of urban space, also helped define London through his periodicals and fictions. As well as examining his significance and achievements, this book makes Hill a means of exploring the lively intellectual and public world of London in the 1750s where rivalries abounded, and where clubs, societies, coffee-houses, theatres and pleasure gardens shaped fame and fortunes. By investigating one individual’s intersections with his metropolis, \u003ci\u003eFame and Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e restores Hill to view and contributes new understandings of the forms and functionsof eighteenth-century intellectual worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clare Brant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56511996821846,"sku":"9781137580535","price":101.06,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/3206\/6390\/files\/9781137580535.jpg?v=1794089714","url":"https:\/\/www.bookshop.lv\/products\/fame-and-fortune-9781137580535","provider":"Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}