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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.
Contents
List of Tables... v
Abbreviations ... vi
Introduction ... 1
Part I. Personal Relationships: Letters and Conversation ... 11
One Connecting with Three "Young Dogs": Johnson's Early Letters to Robert Chambers, Bennet Langton, and James Boswell ... 12
John Radner
Two James Elphinston and Samuel Johnson: Contact, Irritations, and an "Argonautic" Letter ... 44
Christine Jackson-Holzberg
Three The Case of the Missing Hottentot: John Dun's Conversation with Samuel Johnson in Tour to the Hebrides as Reported by Boswell and Dun ... 79
James Caudle
Part II. Literary Relationships: Major Texts and Topics ... 118
Four Oliver Goldsmith's Revisions to The Traveller ... 119
James E. May
Five "Down with her, Burney!": Johnson, Burney, and the Politics of Literary Celebrity ... 165
Marilyn Francus
Six In the First Circle: The Four Narrators of the Life of Savage ... 205
Lance Wilcox
Seven "Under the shade of exalted merit": Arthur Murphy's A Poetical Epistle to Mr. Samuel Johnson, A.M. ... 236
Anthony W. Lee
Eight Johnson, Burke, Boswell, and the Slavery Debate ... 258
Elizabeth Lambert
Nine Samuel Johnson and Anna Seward: Solitude and Sensibility ... 295
Claudia Thomas Kairoff
Ten Johnson, Warton, and the Popular Reader ... 331
Christopher Catanese
Acknowledgments... 358
Bibliography ... 360
Index ... 389
About the Contributors ... 390
