Samuel Johnson and the Powers of Friendship

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction A.D. Cousins and Daniel Derrin

2 Johnson, Friendship and Politics.

Nicholas Hudson

3 'The Friend of Goodness': Johnson and the 'Life of Savage'.

Julie Crane

4 Intimate Benevolence: Friendship in Johnson's Periodical Essays.

Paul Tankard

5 Johnson's Friendships with Women.

Norma Clarke

6 Friendships in Prison: Imlac, Rasselas, the Hermit and the Astronomer.

A. D. Cousins

7 Friendship, Societas, and Analysis of Scotland's Highlands and Islands.

Daniel Derrin

8 Critical Friendships in the Lives of the Poets.

Philip Smallwood

9 Seeking Minds in Unison: Johnson and his Friends in the Letters.



Pat Rogers

10 Recent Studies on Johnson and Friendship.

Dani Napton

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• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800
• Estudos literários: poesia e poetas
• Estudos literários: ficção, romancistas e escritores de prosa
• Teorias literárias
• Sociologia, família e relacionamentos

eighteenth-century literature;moral philosophy;social networks history;British Enlightenment studies;gender and friendship;periodical essay analysis;Johnson's philosophy of friendship