Community and Solitude - New Essays on Johnson's Circle (Paperback)

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 explores 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.

General

Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
Release date:	April 2019
Editors:	Anthony W Lee
Contributors:	John Bradner • Christine Jackson-Holzberg • James J. Caudle • James E. May • Marilyn Francus • Lance Wilcox • Elizabeth Lambert • Claudia Thomas Kairoff • Christopher Catanese
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	258
ISBN-13:	978-1-68448-022-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Promotions
LSN:	1-68448-022-1
Barcode:	9781684480227

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