Sir Robert Chambers Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson

by Thomas M. Curley and Samuel Johnson

Sir Robert Chambers (1737-1803) was a literary as well as a legal man. Friend and collaborator of Samuel Johnson, professor of English law at Oxford University, and one of the four judges on the first Supreme Court of India, Chambers was an enormously influential figure in the eighteenth-century British empire. This book is the first authoritative biography of Chambers and is also the first major contribution in decades to historical scholarship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299151506
• ISBN13: 9780299151508
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 2.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"