Mentoring in eighteenth-century British literature and culture
By: edited by Anthony W. Lee
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780754669777; 9780754699811
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: authority and influence in eighteenth-century British literary mentoring; title: Reverend shapes: Lord Rochester's many mentors / J. W. Johnson; title: Manly strength with modern softness: Dryden and the mentoring of women writers / Anne Cotterill; title: Alexander Pope: perceived patron, misunderstood mentor / Shef Rogers; title: "I will have you spell right, let the world go how it will": Swift the (tor)mentor / Brean Hammond and Nicholas Seager; title: Candide and Tom Jones: Voltaire, perched on Fielding's shoulders / E. M. Langille; title: Filling blanks in the Richardson Circle: the unsuccessful mentorship of Urania Johnson / Nicholas D. Nace; title: Raising a risible nation: merry mentoring and the art (and sometimes science) of joking greatness / Kevin L. Cope; title: The education of Henry Sampson Woodfall, newspaperman / Lance Bertelsen; title: The text of the missed encounter: mentorship as absence in Smart, Johnson, Bate, and Trilling / Thomas Simmons; title: Who's mentoring whom? mentorship, alliance and rivalry in the Carter-Johnson relationship / Anthony W. Lee; title: The duties of a scholar: Samuel Johnson in Piozzi's anecdotes / Elizabeth Hedrick; title: Mothers, Marys, and reforming "the rising generation": Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Hays / Margaret Kathryn Sloan.