Dead masters [electronic resource] : mentoring and intertextuality in Samuel Johnson / Anthony W. Lee.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bethlehem [Pa.] : Lehigh University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011.Description: xvii, 243 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 828/.609 23
LOC classification:
  • PR3537.L5 L44 2011eb
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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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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