Community and Solitude
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-023-4 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Anthony W. Lee’s research interests center upon Samuel Johnson and his circle, mentoring, and intertexuality. He has published three books and more than thirty essays on Johnson and eighteenth-century literature and culture. He has two books forthcoming, Revaluation: New Essays on Samuel Johnson (with the University of Delaware Press, 2018) and “Modernity Johnson”: Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists (Clemson University Press, 2019).Anthony has taught at a number of colleges and universities, including the University of Arkansas, Arkansas Tech University, Kentucky Wesleyan College, the University of the District of Columbia, and the University of Maryland University College, where he also served as Director of the English and Humanities Program.
List of Tables… v
Abbreviations … vi
Introduction ... 1
Part I. Personal Relationships: Letters and Conversation ... 11
One Connecting with Three “Young Dogs”: Johnson’s Early Letters to Robert Chambers, Bennet Langton, and James Boswell ... 12
John Radner
Two James Elphinston and Samuel Johnson: Contact, Irritations, and an “Argonautic” Letter ... 44
Christine Jackson-Holzberg
Three The Case of the Missing Hottentot: John Dun’s Conversation with Samuel Johnson in Tour to the Hebrides as Reported by Boswell and Dun ... 79
James Caudle
Part II. Literary Relationships: Major Texts and Topics ... 118
Four Oliver Goldsmith’s Revisions to The Traveller ... 119
James E. May
Five “Down with her, Burney!”: Johnson, Burney, and the Politics of Literary Celebrity ... 165
Marilyn Francus
Six In the First Circle: The Four Narrators of the Life of Savage ... 205
Lance Wilcox
Seven “Under the shade of exalted merit”: Arthur Murphy’s A Poetical Epistle to Mr. Samuel Johnson, A.M. ... 236
Anthony W. Lee
Eight Johnson, Burke, Boswell, and the Slavery Debate ... 258
Elizabeth Lambert
Nine Samuel Johnson and Anna Seward: Solitude and Sensibility ... 295
Claudia Thomas Kairoff
Ten Johnson, Warton, and the Popular Reader ... 331
Christopher Catanese
Acknowledgments... 358
Bibliography ... 360
Index ... 389
About the Contributors ... 390
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.04.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 |
| Co-Autor | John Radner, Christine Jackson-Holzberg, James J. Caudle, James E May |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 table |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 467 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-68448-023-X / 168448023X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-68448-023-4 / 9781684480234 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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