Lives are known textually, and this collection of new essays explores, corrects, and advances contemporary knowledge of historical lives and texts, particularly of the British eighteenth century. Complementing the essays is a complete translation and critical edition of a life of Hester Thrale Piozzi written in French by Frances Burney.
Lives are known textually, and this collection of new essays explores, corrects, and advances contemporary knowledge of historical lives and texts, particularly of the British eighteenth century. Complementing the essays is a complete translation and critical edition of a life of Hester Thrale Piozzi written in French by Frances Burney.
Jesse G. Swan is professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa.
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Contents Skip Brack: A Tribute from a Colleague and Friend Jerry Beasley Print Borne and Born Digital: Considering Careers, My Father's and My Own Matthew Brack List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Jesse G. Swan Part I: Textual Studies 1 Collecting Samuel Johnson and His Circle Loren Rothschild 2 Some Notes on the Textual Fidelity of Eighteenth-Century Reprint Editions James E. May 3 Learning from Don Bilioso's Adventures: Visualizing a Critical Edition of the Printed Works of John Arbuthnot Walter H. Keithley 4 The Solicitation in Two Acts: James Robinson Planché's Vampires on Stage, in Color, and under Cover Jennifer M. Santos Part II: Biographical Studies 5 Samuel Parr's Epitaph for Johnson, His Library, and His Unwritten Biography Robert DeMaria, Jr. 6 Samuel Johnson's Shakespearean Exit: Emendation and Amendment Gordon Turnbull 7 Searching for the Invisible Man: The Images of Francis Barber Michael Bundock 8 Alceste: Tobias Smollett's Early Career Leslie Chilton 9 Gender, State Power, and the Rhetoric of the Funeral Sermons for Queen Mary II Martine W. Brownley 10 Swift's Politics Reconsidered Thomas Kaminski 11 The Work of a Professional Biographer: Oliver Goldsmith's The Life of Richard Nash, ESQ Christopher D. Johnson Part III: Edition 12 Frances Burney on Hester Thrale Piozzi: "une petite histoire" Translated and edited by Peter Sabor Coda, "But when I come, let me have the benefit of your advice, and the consolation of your company": The Career, with a Listing of Publications, of O M Brack, Jr. Jesse G. Swan Bibliography About the Contributors Index
Contents Skip Brack: A Tribute from a Colleague and Friend Jerry Beasley Print Borne and Born Digital: Considering Careers, My Father's and My Own Matthew Brack List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Jesse G. Swan Part I: Textual Studies 1 Collecting Samuel Johnson and His Circle Loren Rothschild 2 Some Notes on the Textual Fidelity of Eighteenth-Century Reprint Editions James E. May 3 Learning from Don Bilioso's Adventures: Visualizing a Critical Edition of the Printed Works of John Arbuthnot Walter H. Keithley 4 The Solicitation in Two Acts: James Robinson Planché's Vampires on Stage, in Color, and under Cover Jennifer M. Santos Part II: Biographical Studies 5 Samuel Parr's Epitaph for Johnson, His Library, and His Unwritten Biography Robert DeMaria, Jr. 6 Samuel Johnson's Shakespearean Exit: Emendation and Amendment Gordon Turnbull 7 Searching for the Invisible Man: The Images of Francis Barber Michael Bundock 8 Alceste: Tobias Smollett's Early Career Leslie Chilton 9 Gender, State Power, and the Rhetoric of the Funeral Sermons for Queen Mary II Martine W. Brownley 10 Swift's Politics Reconsidered Thomas Kaminski 11 The Work of a Professional Biographer: Oliver Goldsmith's The Life of Richard Nash, ESQ Christopher D. Johnson Part III: Edition 12 Frances Burney on Hester Thrale Piozzi: "une petite histoire" Translated and edited by Peter Sabor Coda, "But when I come, let me have the benefit of your advice, and the consolation of your company": The Career, with a Listing of Publications, of O M Brack, Jr. Jesse G. Swan Bibliography About the Contributors Index
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