Community and Solitude - New Essays on Johnson''s Circle

Klappentext Samuel Johnson's life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendships and antagonisms. This book is a collection of ten essays that explores relationships between Johnson and several of his main contemporaries and analyses some of the literary productions emanating from the pressures within those relationships. Zusammenfassung This collection explores relationships between Samual Johnson and several of his main contemporaries—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.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony W. Lee, LEE RADNER JACKSON
• Assisted by: Anthony W Lee (Editor), Anthony W. Lee (Editor)
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781684480234
• ISBN: 978-1-68448-023-4
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies