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Dead masters : mentoring and intertextuality in Samuel Johnson

Title
Dead masters : mentoring and intertextuality in Samuel Johnson / Anthony W. Lee.
Author
Lee, Anthony W.
Publication
Bethlehem [Pa.] : Lehigh University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011.

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Description
xvii, 243 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Dead Masters examines the dual issues of mentoring and intertextuality as an integrated phenomenon. Through a series of fresh and novel readings of Johnsonian and Boswellian texts, the book further advances our awareness of the formal complexities of Johnson's writings and the psychological substratum from which they issue"--
Subject
  • Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 > Knowledge > Literature
  • Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 > Sources
  • Criticism > Great Britain > History > 18th century
  • Mentoring of authors > Great Britain > History > 18th century
  • Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) > History > 18th century
  • Intertextuality
  • Mentoring in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Mentoring, intertextuality, and Samuel Johnson -- Johnson's symbolic mentors : Addison, Dryden, and Rambler 86 -- The poetics of gloom : Samuel Johnson as intertextual critic -- Between texts : intertextual brackets in Johnson's Shakespeare and Milton -- "Under the dominion of a name" : Johnson's Pope -- Mentoring and mimicry in Boswell.
Call Number
JFE 12-778
ISBN
  • 9781611460759 (hardback)
  • 1611460751 (hardback)
  • 9781611460766 (electronic)
  • 161146076X (electronic)
LCCN
2011030997
OCLC
YBP 2011030997
Author
Lee, Anthony W.
Title
Dead masters : mentoring and intertextuality in Samuel Johnson / Anthony W. Lee.
Imprint
Bethlehem [Pa.] : Lehigh University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 12-778
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