Title: Mentoring relationships in the life and writings of Samuel Johnson : a study in the dynamics of eighteenth-century literary mentoring /
Authors: Lee, Anthony W.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Johnson, Samuel, Friends and associates.; Johnson, Samuel, Childhood and youth.; Mentoring of authors England History; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) History; Authors, English Biography; Authorship History
Contents: Introduction: Mentoring and Samuel Johnson -- A theory of mentoring -- "Painting for a name": Cornelius Ford, "Non usitata," and the ambitions of authorship -- Richard Savage, Life of savage, and Johnson's mature philosophical vision -- "A guide, a father, and a friend": Oliver Goldsmith, Rasselas, and Johnson's mentoring at mid-life -- The "affection of a parent and the reverence of a son": the collision of mentoring and mothering in Piozzi's Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson -- Boswell, Burney, and Johnson's mentoring legacy.