1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457712003321

Autore

Lee Anthony W

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bethlehem [Pa.], : Lehigh University Press

Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011

ISBN

1-283-35378-4

9786613353788

1-61146-076-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Disciplina

828/.609

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910132774103321

Autore

Nardo Don <1947->

Titolo

The Vikings / / by Don Nardo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, Mich. : , : Lucent Books, , 2011

ISBN

1-4205-0558-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations

Collana

World history

Disciplina

948/.022

Soggetti

Vikings

Northmen

Civilization, Viking

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-106) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : surviving evidence for the Vikings -- Viking origins and early raids -- Viking conquests and expansion -- Viking warriors and ships -- Viking families and home life -- Viking communities and culture -- Viking religion and myths -- Viking explorations in the West.

Sommario/riassunto

Provides an overview of important historical events or periods in world history. This volume focuses on the Vikings and features quotations from sources such as diaries, public records, and contemporary chronicles.