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PublisherLiverpool University Press

ISBN-101846311306

ISBN-139781846311307

eBay Product ID (ePID)64063722

Product Key Features

Book TitleWilliam Roscoe : Commerce and Culture

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2008

TopicCultural Heritage, Europe / Great Britain / General, Customs & Traditions

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorArline Wilson

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight14.9 Oz

Item Length5.8 in

Item Width8.6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsThe man of letters, who speaks of Liverpool, speaks of it as the residence of Roscoe. The intelligent traveller who visits it inquires where Roscoe is to be seen. Washington Irving, The man of letters, who speaks of Liverpool, speaks of it as the residence of Roscoe. The intelligent traveller who visits it inquires where Roscoe is to be seen., Historians have long awaited a serious rounded study of William Roscoe, the iconic figure of late 18th- and early 19th-century Liverpool. This balanced study is valuable for encapsulating in readable form many of the wider aspects of Roscoe's career, particularly the social, political and business sides of his life. It is not very often that one can find so much information in so many fronts on a significant British art collector.

Dewey Decimal942.753073092

Table Of ContentAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man 2. The Shaping of the Scholar 3. Roscoe the Littérateur 4. Liverpool's Cultural Icon 5. Art in the City 6. Roscoe the Radical 7. Roscoe the Businessman 8. Towards Immortality Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

SynopsisWriter, poet, historian, anti-slavery campaigner, botanist, book-collector, MP and art patron, William Roscoe has been acclaimed as 'The Founding Father of Liverpool Culture'. A friend and correspondent of Burns and Shelley, acclaimed by Horace Walpole as 'by far the best of our historians', and author of a poem 'The Butterfly's Ball' that delighted King George III so much he had it set to music, Roscoe's name is synonymous with Liverpool. In this major new study Arline Wilson explores the man behind the myth, examining why Roscoe is claimed to personify, more than any other, the union of commerce and culture in Liverpool: the lawyer, banker and businessman, who is credited with laying the foundations for his city's artistic, literary and social evolution., Writer, poet, historian, anti-slavery campaigner, botanist, book-collector, MP and art patron, William Roscoe was a major cultural figure in late 18th and early 19th century Britain. This book explores the man behind the myth, examining the contradictions of the anti-slavery campaigner born and bred in the world's pre-eminent slaving port.

LC Classification NumberDA1