A Clubbable Man : : Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham / / ed. by Anthony W. Lee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Brownley, Martine,; Brownley,,; Cope, Kevin L.,; Czennia, Bärbel,; Fassett, Caroline,; Forsberg, Nina,; Grosholz, Emily,; Hanlon, Aaron R.,; Hawes, Clement,; Henry, Patrick Thomas,; Hopkins, David,; Jermey, Dominic,; Krog, Antjie,; Labbie, Erin,; Lee, Anthony W.,; Little, Daniel,; McNicholas, Joseph,; Parker, Kate,; Reverand II, Cedric D.,; Reverand, Cedric D.,; Rice, James,; Richetti, John,; Rickard, John,; Rounce, Adam,; Smallwood, Philip,; Sojka, Gary,; Tchou, Kang,; Tchou, W. K.,; Thomas, Harry,; Turnbull, Gordon,; Walker, Adam,; Walker, Robert G.,; Williams, Margaret,; Winn, Kieron,; Wood, Elaine,
• HerausgeberIn: Lee, Anthony W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.) :; 1 B-W illustration, 1 color photograph

Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability o...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• A Note on the Cover Image
• Introduction
• PART I Essays on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell
• Mirrored Minds: Johnson and Shakespeare
• The General and the Particular: Paradox and the Play of Contraries in the Criticism of Pope, Johnson, and Reynolds
• “The Caliban of Literature”: Spenser, Shakespeare, and Johnson’s Intertextual Scholarship
• In Silence and Darkness: Johnson’s Verdicts on Artistic Failure
• Smollett’s Ramblers and the Law of the Land
• The Social Life of Thomas Cumming, or “Clubbing” with Johnson’s Friend, the Fighting Quaker
• Not “Just a Macheath”: Young Boswell and Old Cibber in Boswell’s London Journal 1762–1763
• PART II Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• English Historiography, the Development of Secular Autobiography, and the Memoir
• What Else Did Pope Borrow from Dryden?
• Poetic Performances: Pope’s An Essay on Man and Swift’s “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift”
• Swift Shrinks the Duke of Marlborough: Public Delegitimation through Scale
• Western Gardens, Eastern Views: Asian Travelers on Greenscapes of the British Isles
• Publishers Can Cause Earthquakes: Explanations and Enigmas of the Seismic Enlightenment
• PART III Personal Reminiscences
• Greg Clingham as Teacher and Mentor
• Greg Clingham and Bucknell University Press
• Commemoratory Poems
• Coda
• Greg Clingham’s Publications
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index