The salon and English letters

About this eBook

Author

Tinker, Chauncey Brewster, 1876-1963

Title

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

Original Publication

United States: The Macmillan Company, 1915.

Credits

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

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Contemporaries

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 71916

Release Date

October 20, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.THE SALON AND ENGLISH LETTERS
4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.Untitled
6. 6.Untitled
7. 7.Untitled
8. 8.Untitled
9. 9.TABLE OF CONTENTS
10. 10.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
11. 11.PART I THE FRENCH BACKGROUND
12. 12.CHAPTER I Introduction
13. 13.CHAPTER II Origin and Characteristics of the Salon
14. 14.CHAPTER III The Eighteenth Century Salon
15. 15.CHAPTER IV English Authors in Parisian Salons
16. 16.PART II THE ENGLISH SALON
17. 17.CHAPTER V The Earlier English Salon
18. 18.CHAPTER VI Conversation Parties and Literary Assemblies
19. 19.CHAPTER VII The Bluestocking Club
20. 20.CHAPTER VIII The London Salon
21. 21.CHAPTER IX Bluestockings as Authors
22. 22.CHAPTER X Mrs. Montagu as a Patron of the Arts
23. 23.CHAPTER XI Results
24. 24.PART III THE SOCIAL SPIRIT IN ENGLISH LETTERS
25. 25.Untitled
26. 26.CHAPTER XII Johnson and the Art of Conversation
27. 27.CHAPTER XIII Walpole and the Art of Familiar Correspondence
28. 28.CHAPTER XIV Fanny Burney and the Art of the Diarist
29. 29.CHAPTER XV Boswell and the Art of Intimate Biography
30. 30.INDEX
31. 31.FOOTNOTES:
32. 32.Untitled
33. 33.Untitled
34. 34.Untitled
35. 35.Untitled
36. 36.Untitled

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