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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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