Dead masters : mentoring and intertextuality in Samuel Johnson /
Lee, Anthony W.
Bethlehem [Pa.] : Lehigh University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
c2011.
"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.
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.
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
Criticism
Mentoring of authors
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Intertextuality.
Mentoring in literature.