{"product_id":"community-and-solitude-new-essays-on-johnsons-circle-hardback-9781684480234","title":"Community and Solitude; New Essays on Johnson's Circle (Hardback) 9781684480234","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCommunity and Solitude\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNew Essays on Johnson's Circle\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnthony W Lee (Edited by), John Radner (Contributions by), Christine Jackson-Holzberg (Contributions by), James J. Caudle (Contributions by), James E May (Contributions by), Marilyn Francus (Contributions by), Lance Wilcox (Contributions by), Elizabeth Lambert (Contributions by), Claudia Thomas Kairoff (Contributions by), Christopher Catanese (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781684480234\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 April 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e270 pages, 1 table\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.3 cm, 0.467 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"An invaluable, erudite, thoughtful and thought-provoking contribution to the study of Samuel Johnson's life, philosophy, and literary work, \u003ci\u003eCommunity and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary body of informative and deftly scripted scholarship.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Midwest Book Review\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"As a monograph designed for considering the historical interconnectedness in readings of literature, history, and culture, \u003ci\u003eCommunity and Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e, part of Bucknell University Press's Transits series, accomplishes its goal with welcome fidelity.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"The book uses...discussions to provide an engaging illustration of time, place, and character for a wide audience. For scholars who know Boswell's biography and eighteenth-century London well, the book offers primarily a useful synthesis of biographies and cultural history.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Eighteenth-Century Fiction\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"These essays, well presented in this volume by Bucknell University Press, bring context, color, and an array of information that should prove of value to students and scholars of Johnson's expansive circle.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Eighteenth-Century Studies\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"The scholarship is of a consistently high level, and the prose is clear and well edited. \u003ci\u003eCom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003emunity and Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e provides a salutary reminder that authorship is not always the solitary activity that many people assume. Recommend.\" \u003c\/div\u003e— Choice\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Lee, as editor, sets out to counterbalance Johnson's need for solitude to accomplish his literary works with his at times almost desperate search for company to alleviate his periods of despair and disillusion. How could someone with such a sociable character and love of conversation succeed in creating such a corpus of work that within its pages we can find epithets suitable for most occasions in life?\"\u003c\/div\u003e— The New Rambler\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"This volume of essays advances the field not only because it focuses on a new topic but also because of the patient and imaginative analysis in the various essays. The audience here extends beyond Johnsonians because so many other figures of interest are included, from Frances Burney, Burke, Warton, Seward, and Arthur Murphy to Goldsmith and of course Boswell.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Steven Lynn, University of South Carolina\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"This collection of ten essays begins with three solid essays, all making good use of correspondence.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eSamuel Johnson's life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendships—and antagonisms. \u003ci\u003eCommunity and Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e: 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eList of Tables\u003c\/i\u003e… v\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/i\u003e … vi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction ... 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I. Personal Relationships: Letters and Conversation ... 11\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Connecting with Three \"Young Dogs\": Johnson's Early Letters to Robert Chambers, Bennet Langton, and James Boswell ... 12\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Radner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Two \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e James Elphinston and Samuel Johnson: Contact, Irritations, and an \"Argonautic\" Letter ... 44\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristine Jackson-Holzberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Three \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Case of the Missing Hottentot: John Dun's Conversation with Samuel Johnson in \u003ci\u003eTour to the Hebrides\u003c\/i\u003e as Reported by Boswell and Dun ... 79\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames Caudle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II. Literary Relationships: Major Texts and Topics ... 118\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Four \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Oliver Goldsmith's Revisions to \u003ci\u003eThe Traveller\u003c\/i\u003e ... 119\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames E. May\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Five \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Down with her, Burney!\": Johnson, Burney, and the Politics of Literary Celebrity ... 165\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarilyn Francus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Six \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In the First Circle: The Four Narrators of the \u003ci\u003eLife of Savage\u003c\/i\u003e ... 205\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLance Wilcox\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Seven \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Under the shade of exalted merit\": Arthur Murphy's \u003ci\u003eA Poetical Epistle to Mr. Samuel Johnson, A.M.\u003c\/i\u003e ... 236\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnthony W. Lee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eight \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Johnson, Burke, Boswell, and the Slavery Debate ... 258\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Lambert\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nine \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Samuel Johnson and Anna Seward: Solitude and Sensibility ... 295\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eClaudia Thomas Kairoff\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ten \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Johnson, Warton, and the Popular Reader ... 331\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher Catanese\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e... 358\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e ... 360\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e ... 389\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/i\u003e ... 390\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bucknell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52633810010392,"sku":"9781684480234","price":123.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/community-and-solitude-new-essays-on-johnsons-circle-hardback-9781684480234","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}