Research Catalog

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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Details

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"--

Alternative Title

Mentoring and intertextuality in Samuel Johnson

Subject

• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 > Knowledge > Literature
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 > Sources
• 1700-1799
• 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
• LITERARY CRITICISM / General
• LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781611460759 (hardback)
• 1611460751 (hardback)
• 9781611460766 (electronic)
• 161146076X (electronic)

LCCN

^^2011030997

OCLC

• 742512356
• SCSB-11412000

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library