Community and Solitude - New Essays on Johnson’s Circle (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
Release date:	April 2019
First published:	2019
Editors:	Anthony W Lee
Contributors:	John Radner • Christine Jackson-Holzberg • James J. Caudle • James E. May • Marilyn Francus • Lance Wilcox • Elizabeth Lambert • Claudia Thomas Kairoff • Christopher Catanese
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	270
ISBN-13:	978-1-68448-023-4
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-68448-023-X
Barcode:	9781684480234

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