Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle - Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850

This collection explores relationships between Samual Johnson and several of his main contemporaries—James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Frances Burney, Robert Chambers, Oliver Goldsmith, Bennet Langton, Arthur Murphy, Richard Savage, Anna Seward, and Thomas Warton—and analyzes some of the literary productions emanating from the pressures within those relationships.