Sydney Smith - Couverture rigide

Virgin, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0002158906 ISBN 13 : 9780002158909

Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

A clergyman, Sydney Smith founded the "Edinburgh Review", the first of the major 19th-century periodicals; the most famous diner-out of his day, he campaigned passionately against many forms of social injustice: a Whig for most of his career, he did a "volte face" in his sixties, his works beginning to win the applause of the Tories. Unrivalled among his contemporaries for his conversational wit, he was nevertheless a fine letter-writer, revealing to his numerous correspondents a nature that was sensible and sensitive. His writings cannot be pigeon-holed. When inveighing against the burden of taxes, he is close to Cobbett; some of his witticisms anticipate the distinctive humour of Oscar Wilde; and his private melancholy echoes remarks found in Dr Johnson's journals. It was Sydney's achievement to be both serious and humorous, and he was the inventor of Nonsense - the style of burlesque and parody later developed by Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll - as well as a leading social commentator. This is abiography.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0002158906
• ISBN 13: 9780002158909
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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