{"product_id":"edmond-malone-shakespearean-scholar-9780521619820","title":"Edmond Malone Shakespearean Scholar","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdmond Malone (1741–1812) laid the foundations for the scholarly study of literature; yet he was also gregarious, attracting many friends and enemies among his contemporaries. This first modern full-length biography illuminates the private world of the scholar and the public world of the late eighteenth-century intellectual elite.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Irish beginnings; 2. 'Shakspearomania'; 3. Dr Johnson and the club; 4. Courtship, books, forgeries, and Horace Walpole; 5. Scholarship and strife; 6. 'O Brave We!': helping Boswell with the Tour of the Hebrides; 7. Deep in Shakespeare; 8. Boswell's Life of Johnson; 9. Interruptions and disappointments; 10. The club of Hercules: exposing Shakespeare forgeries; 11. Art and politics: homage to Reynolds and Burke; 12. John Dryden and the closing of the century; 13. Signs of weariness; 14. 'The last of the Shakspearians'; Epilogue: The Malone–Boswell Third Variorum Edition (1821); Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767697539415,"sku":"9780521619820","price":36.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780521619820.jpg?v=1758714465","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/edmond-malone-shakespearean-scholar-9780521619820","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}