TY  - BOOK
AU  - Catanese,Christopher
AU  - Caudle,James J.
AU  - Francus,Marilyn
AU  - Jackson-Holzberg,Christine
AU  - Kairoff,Claudia Thomas
AU  - Lambert,Elizabeth
AU  - Lee,Anthony W.
AU  - May,James E
AU  - May,James E.
AU  - Radner,John
AU  - Thomas Kairoff,Claudia
AU  - Wilcox,Lance
TI  - Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle 
T2  - Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
SN  - 9781684480265
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Lewisburg, PA
PB  - Bucknell University Press
KW  - Authors, English
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - English literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Intellectuals
KW  - England
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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 Burney, Robert Chambers, Oliver Goldsmith, Bennet Langton, Arthur Murphy, Richard Savage, Anna Seward, and Thomas Warton—and analyzes some of the literary productions emanating from the pressures within those relationships. In their detailed and careful examination of particular works situated within complex social and personal contexts, the essays in this volume offer a “thick” and illuminating description of Johnson’s world that also engages with larger cultural and aesthetic issues, such as intertextuality, literary celebrity, narrative, the nature of criticism, race, slavery, and sensibility. Contributors: Christopher Catanese, James Caudle, Marilyn Francus, Christine Jackson-Holzberg, Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Elizabeth Lambert, Anthony W. Lee, James E. May, John Radner, and Lance Wilcox. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684480265?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781684480265
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