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Lives are known textually, and this collection of new essays explores, corrects, and advances contemporary knowledge of historical lives and texts, particularly of the British eighteenth century. Complementing the essays is a complete translation and critical edition of a life of Hester Thrale Piozzi written in French by Frances Burney.
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Contents
Skip Brack: A Tribute from a Colleague and Friend
Jerry Beasley
Print Borne and Born Digital: Considering Careers, My Father's and My Own
Matthew Brack
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Jesse G. Swan
Part I: Textual Studies
1 Collecting Samuel Johnson and His Circle
Loren Rothschild
2 Some Notes on the Textual Fidelity of Eighteenth-Century Reprint Editions
James E. May
3 Learning from Don Bilioso's Adventures: Visualizing a Critical Edition of the Printed Works of John Arbuthnot
Walter H. Keithley
4 The Solicitation in Two Acts: James Robinson Planché's Vampires on Stage, in Color, and under Cover
Jennifer M. Santos
Part II: Biographical Studies
5 Samuel Parr's Epitaph for Johnson, His Library, and His Unwritten Biography
Robert DeMaria, Jr.
6 Samuel Johnson's Shakespearean Exit: Emendation and Amendment
Gordon Turnbull
7 Searching for the Invisible Man: The Images of Francis Barber
Michael Bundock
8 Alceste: Tobias Smollett's Early Career
Leslie Chilton
9 Gender, State Power, and the Rhetoric of the Funeral Sermons for Queen Mary II
Martine W. Brownley
10 Swift's Politics Reconsidered
Thomas Kaminski
11 The Work of a Professional Biographer: Oliver Goldsmith's The Life of Richard Nash, ESQ
Christopher D. Johnson
Part III: Edition
12 Frances Burney on Hester Thrale Piozzi: "une petite histoire"
Translated and edited by Peter Sabor
Coda, "But when I come, let me have the benefit of your advice, and the consolation of your company": The Career, with a Listing of Publications, of O M Brack, Jr.
Jesse G. Swan
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
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Jesse G. Swan is professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa.
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Lives are known textually, and this collection of new essays explores, corrects, and advances contemporary knowledge of historical lives and texts, particularly of the British eighteenth century. Complementing the essays is a complete translation and critical edition of a life of Hester Thrale Piozzi written in French by Frances Burney.
