Community and solitude : new essays on Johnson's circle
Record details
- ISBN: 9781684480265
- ISBN: 1684480264
- ISBN: 1684480248
- ISBN: 9781684480241
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 257 pages)
remote - Publisher: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Connecting with three "young dogs" : Johnson's early letters to Robert Chambers, Bennet Langton, and James Boswell / John Radner -- James Elphinston and Samuel Johnson : contact, irritations, and an "argonautic" letter John Radner / Christine Jackson-Holzberg -- The case of the missing Hottentot : John Dun's conversation with Samuel Johnson in Tour to the Hebrides as reported by Boswell and Dun / James Caudle -- Oliver Goldsmith's revisions to The traveller / James E. May -- "Down with her, Burney!" : Johnson, Burney, and the politics of literary celebrity / Marilyn Francus -- In the first circle : the four narrators of The life of savage / Lance Wilcox -- "Under the shade of exalted merit" : Arthur Murphy's A poetical epistle to Mr Samuel Johnson, A.M. / Anthony W. Lee -- Johnson, Burke, Boswell, and the slavery debate / Elizabeth Lambert -- Samuel Johnson and Anna Seward: Solitude and Sensibility / Claudia Thomas Kairoff -- Johnson, Warton, and the popular reader / Christopher Catanese. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Language Note: | In English. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Genre: | Electronic books. Biographies. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |