Using previously inaccessible material, this critical biography of the literary theorist, philosopher of language, and musical impresario James Harris creates a vivid picture of this important figure in eighteenth-century English culture. The author of Three Treatises and Hermes , Harris led a culturally and politically rich and varied life. Harris's encounters with the great writers and musicians of the day, including Johnson, Boswell, the Fieldings, Handel, J.C. Bach, and Dr. Charles Burney are brought into focus in ...
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Using previously inaccessible material, this critical biography of the literary theorist, philosopher of language, and musical impresario James Harris creates a vivid picture of this important figure in eighteenth-century English culture. The author of Three Treatises and Hermes , Harris led a culturally and politically rich and varied life. Harris's encounters with the great writers and musicians of the day, including Johnson, Boswell, the Fieldings, Handel, J.C. Bach, and Dr. Charles Burney are brought into focus in this full-length study of eighteenth-century life.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 750grams, ISBN: 9780198185635.
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Good Condition. 22.8 x 14.6 x 2.5 cm. Condition: Good. Dust jacket fully intact, only lightly rubbed at edges. Internally, clean and fresh, with unmarked and uncreased pages. Overall, very sound and presentable. Size: 14.6 x 2.7 x 22.4 cm. 371 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Politicians; England--London; Great Britain; England--Salisbury; England; Harris, James, 1709-1780; Civilization; 10.01; ISBN: 0198185634. Add. Inventory No: 220506ROSX007044.
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First edition. xiv+371 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in like dustjacket. Intended for scholars and advanced students of 18th-century literature, philosophy, music, and linguistics. This is the first full-length study of James Harris, the literary theorist, philosopher of language, musical impresario, politician, and friend of many leading figures of the 18th century. Best known as the author of "Three Treatises" (on literary theory) and "Hermes" his study of universal grammar, Harris's reputation has always stood higher in continental Europe than in his own country. He led a culturally and politically rich and varied life, organizing distinguished music festivals and other cultural activities in his home city of Salisbury, serving as an MP, in the Treasury, and as Secretary to the Queen, and moving among the great writers and musicians of the day. These included Johnson, with whom he had many intellectual confrontations, Boswell, Henry and Sarah Fielding, Burke, Wilkes, Handel, J.C. Bach, and Dr Charles Burney whom he assisted in the "General History of Music". As a disciple of his uncle, the third Earl of Shaftesbury, Harris was in several important ways an opponent of the age's dominant intellectual currents and saw himself as a crusader, transmitting the classical traditions in literature and philosophy to English readers, against what he took to be the soulless materialism of his time. Using much previously inaccessible material this critical biography brings into focus an important but neglected figure at the heart of 18th century English culture.
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