Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture, Vol 2: The Eighteenth-Century Satire

ISBN-13: 9781138752863 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 444 str.

Markman Ellis

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Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of literature, science, and medicine.

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Coffee: a tale (London: printed for H. Curie [sic, for Curll], 1727), [2], xiv, 33pp.; 8°. BL: RB.23.a.5767.ESTCN27164. Extract, pp. 1–33. Hünersdorff; The Velvet Coffee-woman: or, the Life, Gallantries and Amours of the late famous Mrs Anne Rochford, etc. (Westminster, printed for Simon Green, 1728), [2], 46pp.; 8°. BL: 12331.C.39. ESTCT100189. Hünersdorff; Coffee-man, The Case of the Coffee-men of London and Westminter [sic]. Or, an Account of the Impositions and Abuses, put upon Them and the whole Town, by the present set of News-writers. With the Scheme of the Coffee-men for setting up News-Tapers of their own; and some account of their Troc eedings thereupon. By a coffee-man (London, printed by and for G. Smith, and sold by J. Marshal [sic], [1728]), 40pp.; 8°. BL: 12316.i.32. ESTCT128525; The case between the proprietors of news-papers, and the subscribing coffee-men, fairly stated. Being remarks on their case lately publish’d. Wherein The False Pretences, Wild Project, and Groundless Complaints of that Insolent Set of Men are duly Examined, properly Exposed, and thoroughly Confuted; And their Calumny of Abuses and Impositions justly Retorted. With a Proposal for Remedying the flagrant, scandalous and growing Impositions of the Coffee-Men upon the Publick (London, printed for E. Smith; A. Dodd; and N. Blandford, 1729), 19, [1]pp.; 8°. BL: 1093.d.61. ESTCT133054; The case between the proprietors of news-papers, and the coffee-men of London and Westminster, fairly stated. Being remarks on their case lately publish’d. Wherein The False Pretences, Wild Project, and Groundless Complaints of that insolent set of Men are duly examin’d, properly expos’d, and thoroughly confuted; and their Calumny of Abuses and Impositions justly retorted. With a proposal for remedying the flagrant, scandalous and growing Impositions of the Coffee-Men upon the Publick. To which is annex’d, I. Henley the orator and the Butchers […] II. A Whip for the Post-Boy […] III. An Inspection into

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