TY - GEN digital ID - 131681847 TI - Fame and Fortune : Sir John Hill and London Life in the 1750s AU - Brant, Clare AU - Rousseau, George PY - 2018 SN - 9781137580542 PB - London Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) KW - History of human medicine KW - Human medicine KW - History of civilization KW - History KW - History of the United Kingdom and Ireland KW - History of Eastern Europe KW - wetenschapsgeschiedenis KW - cultuurgeschiedenis KW - geneeskunde KW - geschiedenis KW - Europese geschiedenis KW - Hill, John KW - Smart, Christopher KW - anno 1700-1799 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131681847 AB - This multi-disciplinary essay collection explores the controversial life and achievements of Sir John Hill (1714–1775), the 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. Hill, an important writer of urban space, also helped define London through his periodicals and fictions. As well as examining his significance and achievements, his vilification and rise to celebrity, 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, Fame and Fortune restores Hill to view and contributes new understandings of the forms and functions of eighteenth-century intellectual worlds. ER -