Community and Solitude : New Essays on Johnson’s Circle Paperback / softback
Edited by Anthony W. Lee
Part of the Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:270 pages, 1 table
- Publisher:Bucknell University Press,U.S.
- Publication Date:22/04/2019
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- ISBN:9781684480227
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:270 pages, 1 table
- Publisher:Bucknell University Press,U.S.
- Publication Date:22/04/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781684480227
