The Salon and English Letters (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Chauncey B. Tinker

Overview

This 1915 volume explores the history of both the French and English salons and their influence upon literature. The author states that writers “could discover in the conversations of the salons what a nation, always radical at heart, had made of the theories of free thought, liberty, and equality.” Chapters include “English Authors in Parisian Salons,” “The London Salon,” and “The Bluestocking Club.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411457195
Publisher:	Union Square & Co.
Publication date:	01/10/2012
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	324
File size:	322 KB

About the Author

Chauncey Brewster Tinker (1876-1963) was a literary scholar and critic whose specialty was the life and work of James Boswell. He attended and, later, taught at Yale. Among his notable works are Nature's Simple Plan:A Phase of Radical Thought in the Mid-Eighteenth Century (1922) and Painter and Poet: Studies in the Literary Relations of English Painting (1938).

Chauncey Brewster Tinker (1876-1963) was a literary scholar and critic whose specialty was the life and work of James Boswell. He attended and, later, taught at Yale. Among his notable works are Nature's Simple Plan:A Phase of Radical Thought in the Mid-Eighteenth Century (1922)and Painter and Poet: Studies in the Literary Relations of English Painting (1938).