Clubbable Man: Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham
Anthony W. Lee, "Clubbable Man: Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham"
English | ISBN: 1684483514 | 2022 | 322 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1684483514 | 2022 | 322 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Greg Clingham, taking as its theme textual and social group formations. Here, Philip Smallwood examines the “mirrored minds” of Johnson and Shakespeare, while David Hopkins parses intersections of the general and particular in three key eighteenth-century figures. Aaron Hanlon draws parallels between instances of physical rambling and rhetorical strategies in Johnson’s
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