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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781547103321

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

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"--