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

Community and Solitude : : New Essays on Johnson’s Circle / / ed. by Anthony W. Lee.

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 explore relationships between Johnson and several of his main contemporaries—including James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Frances Bur...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
MitwirkendeR:
Catanese, Christopher,
Caudle, James J.,
Francus, Marilyn,
Jackson-Holzberg, Christine,
Kairoff, Claudia Thomas,
Lambert, Elizabeth,
Lee, Anthony W.,
May, James E,
May, James E.,
Radner, John,
Thomas Kairoff, Claudia,
Wilcox, Lance,
HerausgeberIn:
Lee, Anthony W.,
Place / Publishing House:Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
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Physical Description:1 online resource (258 p.) :; 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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