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The Literary History of Philadelphia

The Literary History of Philadelphia


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE WRITERS OF THE REVOLUTION The literary development of the country, as a matter of course, was rudely interrupted and very disastrously affected by the dispute between the mother country and her colonies which soon reached the stage of war. That the taste for good reading and the appreciation of literature of greater value than that which reached the people through the newspaper and the almanac were growing is clearly indicated by the changes effected in the character of the publishing trade in Philadelphia. Franklin, Bradford and the other printers of newspapers, pamphlets and almanacs, rarely issued a work that might be held to possess true literary merit. With the addition of Robert Bell, James Humphreys, Andrew Steuart and Robert Aitken to Philadelphia's group of publishers, the situation in a literary way underwent a marked improvement. Bell, who was a Scotchman, was a particularly valuable acquisition to the list, being incessant in his activity in reprinting for distribution in the colonies works of proven success in England. In 1768 he brought out Johnson's " Rasselas," which was followed by Robertson's "History of Charles V" in three volumes; Blackstone's " Commentaries " in four volumes; Sterne's " Sentimental Journey," " Paradise Lost," Lady Montagu's " Letters and Poems," " Robinson Crusoe," Adam Ferguson's " Essay on the History of Civil Society," and many popular English novels. Even while the war was in progress he was enabled to reprint Voltaire, De Rochefoucauld's " Maxims," Young's " Night Thoughts," and other standard works. He was " always attentive to the desire of the public and ever willing to gratify the growing taste for the advancement of literature in America," said Bell. His doctrine was that " the more books are sold the more wi...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781932109450
  • Publisher: Ross & Perry
  • Publisher Imprint: Ross & Perry
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 556
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 856 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1932109455
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jun 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 31 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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