Literary walks in Bath : eleven excursions in the company of eminent authors / Andrew Swift & Kirsten Elliott.
ISBN
9780956098931 : £15.00
Dewey Classmark
942.398
Local Dewey Classmark
B 942.398 SWI
Personal Author
Swift, Andrew.
Publication
Bath : Akeman Press, 2012.
Physical Description
xii, 320 p. : ill., maps, photos ; 22 cm
Contents
Contents: 1. The lost inns of Bath: a literary Odyssey -- 2. 'Like Mirrors Made, for Men to See' : the Bath stage in the eighteenth century -- 3. 'A Sink of Profligacy and Extortion' : Tobias Smollett in Bath -- 4. The rudest man in England : an introduction to Philip Thicknesse -- 5. Pleasure, pain and grief : Fanny Burney in Bath -- 6. Rebels and Romantics : Catherine Macaulay, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley & Percy Bysshe Shelley in Bath -- 7. 'The Rhythm of Tom Paine's Bones' : Radicalism and Repression in Pitt's 'Reign of Terror' -- 8. 'Vapour, Shadow, Smoke and Confusion' : Jane Austen's Bath -- 9. Pickwick, pubs and penny readings : in the footsteps of Charles Dickens -- 10. Beaux, Bel.
Summary of Contents
Summary: Eleven walks which look at Bath through the eyes of eminent authors as diverse as Smollett, Jane Austen, Dickens, Fanny Burney, Sheridan, Georgette Heyer, Mary Shelley and John Betjeman. They create a vivid social history of the city over the last 300 years. Fully illustrated, with detailed accounts of the writers and their works.
Subject
Bath History.
Added Personal Name
Elliott, Kirsten.
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Eleven walks which look at Bath through the eyes of eminent authors as diverse as Smollett, Jane Austen, Dickens, Fanny Burney, Sheridan, Georgette Heyer, Mary Shelley and John Betjeman. They create a vivid social history of the city over the last 300 years. Fully illustrated, with detailed accounts of the writers and their works.
