Community and solitude : new essays on Johnson's circle /
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Bucknell University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : |
Publication Dates: | [2019] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | ix, 257 pages ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-247) and index. |
ISBN: |
9781684480227 (paperback) : 1684480221 (paperback) 9781684480234 (hardback) 168448023X (hardback) |
Index Number: | PR3533 |
CLC: | I561.064 |
Call Number: | I561.064/C734 |
Contents: |
Connecting with three "young dogs" : Johnson's early letters to Robert Chambers, Bennet Langton, and James Boswell / James Elphinston and Samuel Johnson : contact, irritations, and an "argonautic" letter John Radner / The case of the missing Hottentot : John Dun's conversation with Samuel Johnson in Tour to the Hebrides as reported by Boswell and Dun / Oliver Goldsmith's revisions to The traveller / "Down with her, Burney!" : Johnson, Burney, and the politics of literary celebrity / In the first circle : the four narrators of The life of savage / "Under the shade of exalted merit" : Arthur Murphy's A poetical epistle to Mr Samuel Johnson, A.M. / Johnson, Burke, Boswell, and the slavery debate / Samuel Johnson and Anna Seward: Solitude and Sensibility / Johnson, Warton, and the popular reader / |