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Mentoring relationships in the life and writings of Samuel Johnson : a study in the dynamics of eighteenth-century literary mentoring

Title
Mentoring relationships in the life and writings of Samuel Johnson : a study in the dynamics of eighteenth-century literary mentoring / Anthony W. Lee.
Author
Lee, Anthony W.
Publication
Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Description
xviii, 276 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Studies in British literature ; v. 95
Uniform Title
Studies in British literature ; v. 95.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-270 ) and index.
Contents
Preface / Sandra Sherman -- Introduction : mentoring and Samuel Johnson -- Ch. 1. A theory of mentoring -- Ch. 2. "Panting for a name" : Cornelius Ford, "non usitata," and the ambitions of authorship -- Ch. 3. Richard Savage, Life of Savage, and Johnson's mature philosophical vision -- Ch. 4. "A guide, a father, and a friend" : Oliver Goldsmith, Rasselas, and Johnson's mentoring at mid-life -- Ch. 5. The "affection of a parent and the reverence of a son" : the collision of mentoring and mothering in Piozzi's Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson -- Ch. 6. Boswell, Burney, and Johnson's mentoring legacy.
ISBN
  • 0773460853
  • 088946927X (SBL series)
LCCN
2005047914
OCLC
  • ocm59401406
  • SCSB-5212863
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries