Research Catalog

Title

Mentoring in eighteenth-century British literature and culture / edited by Anthony W. Lee.

Publication

Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.

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Additional Authors

Lee, Anthony W.

Description

ix, 254 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

• "In the first collection devoted to mentoring relationships in British literature and culture, the editor and contributors offer a fresh lens through which to observe familiar and lesser known authors and texts. Employing a variety of critical and methodological approaches, which reflect the diversity of the mentoring experiences under consideration, the collection highlights in particular the importance of mentoring in expanding print culture.
• Topics include John Wilmot the Earl of Rochester's relationships to a range of role models, John Dryden's mentoring of women writers, Alexander Pope's problematic attempts at mentoring, the vexed nature of Jonathan Swift's cross-gender and cross-class mentoring relationships, Samuel Richardson's largely unsuccessful efforts to influence Urania Hill Johnson, and an examination of Elizabeth Carter and Samuel Johnson's as co-mentors of one another's work.
• Taken together, the essays further the case for mentoring as a globally operative critical concept, not only in the eighteenth century, but in other literary periods as well."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

Mentoring in 18th century British literature and culture

Subject

• English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
• Mentoring of authors > Great Britain > History > 18th century
• Authors, English > 18th century > Biography
• Mentoring in literature
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : authority and influence in eighteenth-century British literary mentoring / James William Johnson -- "Reverend shapes" : Lord Rochester's many mentors / James William Johnson -- "Manly strength with modern softness" : Dryden and the mentoring of women writers / Anne Cotterill -- Alexander Pope : perceived patron, misunderstood mentor / Shef Rogers -- "I will have you spell right, let the world go how it will" : Swift the (tor)mentor / Brean Hammond and Nicholas Seager -- Candide and Tom Jones : Voltaire, perched on Fielding's shoulders / E. M. Langille -- Filling blanks in the Richardson Circle : the unsuccessful mentorship of Urania Johnson / Nicholas D. Nace -- Raising a risible nation : merry mentoring and the art (and sometimes science) of joking greatness / Kevin L. Cope -- The education of Henry Sampson Woodfall, newspaperman / Lance Bertelsen -- The text of the missed encounter : mentorship as absence in Smart, Johnson, Bate, and Trilling / Thomas Simmons -- Who's mentoring whom? : mentorship, alliance, and rivalry in the Carter-Johnson relationship / Anthony W. Lee -- The duties of a scholar : Samuel Johnson in Piozzi's Anecdotes / Elizabeth Hedrick -- Mothers, Marys, and reforming "the rising generation" : Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Hays / Margaret Kathryn Sloan.

ISBN

• 9780754669777 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0754669777 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780754699811 (ebook)
• 0754699811 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2009033959

OCLC

• 435710922
• SCSB-12233624

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library