Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life
Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life

Author: Piozzi Hester Lynch

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781318743773

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Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson
Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson

Author: Hesther Lynch Piozzi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-09-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1316619974

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First published in 1925, this book presents a well-known collection of anecdotes by Samuel Johnson. The anecdotes were recorded and compiled by the British author and diarist Hester Lynch Thrale (1741-1821), who became Hester Lynch Piozzi following her second marriage. The original version of the text was published in 1786, shortly after Johnson's death in 1784. An editorial introduction and bibliography were created for this Cambridge edition. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Johnson, Thrale and eighteenth-century thought.

Community and Solitude
Community and Solitude

Author: Anthony W Lee

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2019-04-22

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1684480248

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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.