The curious world of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn /
"Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn vividly reveal in their diaries and correspondence the world of Restoration England. Now Margaret Willes uses the analogy of a cabinet of curiosities to provide a detailed account not only of the two friends but also of their times. Pepys was down to earth and real...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2017]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: curiouser and curiouser
- 'The world do not grow old at all'
- Two worlds
- The decade of the diaries
- Prodigious revolutions
- 'Even private families are ... the best of governments'
- Private lives
- 'I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure'
- Take nobody's word for it
- Pleasure above all things
- Hortulan affairs
- Exotic extravagances
- The affection which we have to books
- Epilogue: and so to bed
- Appendix: the true domestick intelligence.