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Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction : authority and influence in eighteenth-century British literary mentoring / James William Johnson -- "Reverend shapes" : Lord Rochester's many mentors / James William Johnson -- "Manly strength with modern softness" : Dryden and the mentoring of women writers / Anne Cotterill -- Alexander Pope : perceived patron, misunderstood mentor / Shef Rogers -- "I will have you spell right, let the world go how it will" : Swift the (tor)mentor / Brean Hammond and Nicholas Seager -- Candide and Tom Jones : Voltaire, perched on Fielding's shoulders / E.M. Langille -- Filling blanks in the Richardson Circle : the unsuccessful mentorship of Urania Johnson / Nicholas D. Nace -- Raising a risible nation : merry mentoring and the art (and sometimes science) of joking greatness / Kevin L. Cope -- The education of Henry Sampson Woodfall, newspaperman / Lance Bertelsen -- The text of the missed encounter : mentorship as absence in Smart, Johnson, Bate, and Trilling / Thomas Simmons -- Who's mentoring whom? : mentorship, alliance, and rivalry in the Carter-Johnson relationship / Anthony W. Lee -- The duties of a scholar : Samuel Johnson in Piozzi's Anecdotes / Elizabeth Hedrick -- Mothers, Marys, and reforming "the rising generation" : Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Hays / Margaret Kathryn Sloan 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 |
