Chambers's Repository Of Instructive And Amusing Tracts - Softcover

W. & R. Chambers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461317761 ISBN 13: 9780461317763

Publisher: HardPress, 1853

Synopsis

Chambers's Repository Of Instructive And Amusing Tracts. This volume presents a miscellany of 19th-century reprinted essays and biographical sketches drawn from the Chambers's Repository series. It opens with a substantial historical treatment of the North American fur trade, tracing the French New France enterprise, the rise of the Hudson’s Bay Company, and the competition with Canadian rivalries, before detailing the evolution of colonial monopolies and the later union of competing interests. The collection then moves through portraits and discourses on major public figures and literary figures, including a detailed biography of William Cobbett, an autobiographical account of Alice Hoffmann, and a critical life-and-works study of Madame de Staël Holstein. Additional sections survey the living poets of Britain, with discussions of Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, and others, alongside shorter essays on drama and poetry. Overall, the volume offers a diverse window into political economy, biography, memoir, and literary criticism of the period, reflecting the miscellany that made Chambers's Repository a popular instructive and amusing tract.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 1853
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461317761
• ISBN 13: 9780461317763
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 275