Fame and Fortune: Sir John Hill and London Life in the 1750s

1 Introduction; Clare Brant and George Rousseau.- I HILL & LIVES.- 2 The Biographer's Tale: Second Thoughts of a Biographer; George Rousseau.- 3 The Propagation of Lives: Sir John Who?; Clare Brant.- 4 Sir John Hill and Friendship; Emrys Jones.- II HILL & LITERATURE.- 5 John Hill and Mary Cooper: A Case Study in Eighteenth-Century Publishing; Beverley Schneller.- 6 "The Ravished Organs of the Attentive Audience": John Hill and Christopher Smart; Min Wild.- 7 "Unassisted Hill": Churchill's Satire and the Fate of the Virtuoso; Adam Rounce.- 8 The Erotic Satires of Sir John Hill; Julie Peakman.- III HILL & PUBLIC PLACES.- 9 The Doctor as Man of Letters: mid-Georgian Transformations; George Rousseau.- 10 Coffee-house Sociability, Science and Public Life in John Hill's The Inspector; Markman Ellis.- 11 The Inspector at Large: Sir John Hill's Interrogation of London Space; Chris Ewers.- IV HILL & SCIENCES.- 12 A Dwarf on Giant's Shoulders: Hill the Geologist; Christopher J. Duffin.- 13 Sir John Hill as Botanist: The Vegetable System; Brent Elliott.- 14 John Hill, Exotic Botany and the Competitive World of Eighteenth-Century Horticulture; Sarah Easterby-Smith.