Community and Solitude : New Essays on Johnson's Circle /

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Samuel Johnson's life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendships-and antagonisms. Community and Solitude is a collection of ten essays that explores relationships between Johnson and several of his main contemporaries-including James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Franc...

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Otros Autores: Catanese, Christopher (Contribuidor), Caudle, James J. (Contribuidor), Francus, Marilyn (Contribuidor), Jackson-Holzberg, Christine (Contribuidor), Kairoff, Claudia Thomas, Lambert, Elizabeth (Contribuidor), Lee, Anthony W. (Contribuidor, Editor ), May, James E. (Contribuidor), Radner, John (Contribuidor), Thomas Kairoff, Claudia (Contribuidor), Wilcox, Lance (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
Colección:Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
Temas:
Authors, English > 18th century > Biography.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Intellectuals > England > Biography.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE: Personal Relationships: Letters and Conversation
  • 1. Connecting with Three "Young Dogs": Johnson's Early Letters to Robert Chambers, Bennet Langton, and James Boswell
  • 2. James Elphinston and Samuel Johnson: Contact, Irritations, and an "Argonautic" Letter
  • 3. The Case of the Missing Hottentot: John Dun's Conversation with Samuel Johnson in Tour to the Hebrides as Reported by Boswell and Dun
  • PART TWO: Literary Relationships: Major Texts and Topics
  • 4. Oliver Goldsmith's Revisions to The Traveller
  • 5. "Down with Her, Burney!": Johnson, Burney, and the Politics of Literary Celebrity
  • 6. In the First Circle: The Four Narrators of the Life of Savage
  • 7. "Under the Shade of Exalted Merit": Arthur Murphy's A Poetical Epistle to Mr. Samuel Johnson, A.M.
  • 8. Johnson, Burke, Boswell, and the Slavery Debate
  • 9. Samuel Johnson and Anna Seward: Solitude and Sensibility
  • 10. Johnson, Warton, and the Popular Reader
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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