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A collection of essays by scholars of eighteenth-century literature, sharing their experiences as both producers and users of explanatory annotations.

The essays collected in Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists frame this major writer in an unfamiliar milieu and company high modernism and its aftermath. By bringing Johnson to bear on the various authors and topics gathered here, the book foregrounds some aspects of modernism and its practitioners that would otherwise remain hidden and elusive, even as it sheds new light on Johnson. Writers discussed include T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ezra ...

Gathering essays by some of the most distinguished scholars in eighteenth-century studies, A Clubbable Man takes as its theme textual and social group formations, while simultaneously honoring the achievements of Greg Clingham. Rounding out the collection are tributes from former students and colleagues, including original poetry.

Gathering essays by some of the most distinguished scholars in eighteenth-century studies, A Clubbable Man takes as its theme textual and social group formations, while simultaneously honoring the achievements of Greg Clingham. Rounding out the collection are tributes from former students and colleagues, including original poetry.

Anthony W. Lee is Idella Plimpton Kendall Professor of Art History at Mount Holyoke College and the author of several award-winning books, including A Shoemaker's Story and Picturing Chinatown.

Samuel Johnson's life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendships and antagonisms. This book is a collection of ten essays that explores relationships between Johnson and several of his main contemporaries and analyses some of the literary productions emanating from the pressures within those relationships.

Samuel Johnson's life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendships and antagonisms. This book is a collection of ten essays that explores relationships between Johnson and several of his main contemporaries and analyses some of the literary productions emanating from the pressures within those relationships.

Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists consists of essays penned by various hands that bring Johnson sharply into focus by framing him in an unfamiliar milieu and company, High Modernism and its aftermath. By bringing Johnson to bear on the various authors and topics gathered here, the book foregrounds some aspects of Modernism and its practitioners that would otherwise remain hidden and elusive, even as it sheds new light on Johnson"--

Dead Masters examines the dual issues of mentoring and intertextuality as an integrated phenomenon. Through a series of fresh and novel readings of Johnsonian and Boswellian texts, the book further advances our awareness of the formal complexities of Johnson's writings and the psychological substratum from which they issue.

Making a case for the importance of mentoring in the eighteenth century, particularly in expanding print culture, this collection employs a variety of critical and methodological approaches reflective of the diversity of the mentoring experiences. Authors considered include John Wilmot the Earl of Rochester, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Carter, and Samuel Johnson.

This volume presents a selection of paintings, poetry, essays, and other writings by the Chinese American modernist Yun Gee (1906-1963), together with essays about the artist. Gee arrived in San Francisco from Guangdong Province at the age of fifteen and within a few years established himself as one of the city's most daring avant-garde painters, But all of his astonishing efforts with the brush and palette ran up against an intense anti-Chine...

Lee examines a little-known, but striking, body of visual images and image-makers associated with San Francisco's Chinatown in its first 100 years, from 1850 to 1950. In so doing, he integrates insights and literature from the disparate fields of art history, history, and ethnic studies and expands our understanding of the art thriving in that place and time.

Painting on the Left follows the development of public mural painting in San Francisco from 1915 (the year of the Panama Pacific International Exposition) to the mid-1940s, when Anton Refregier painted the controversial murals at Rincon Annex. The heart of the book is the discussion of three murals by Diego Rivera.