A Clubbable Man - 9781684483518

A Clubbable ManEssays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham\nAuthor(s): Anthony W Lee, Anthony W Lee, Philip Smallwood, David Hopkins, Adam Rounce, Aaron R. Hanlon, Robert G. Walker, Gordon Turnbull, Martine Brownley, Cedric D. Reverand II\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S., United States\nImprint: Bucknell University Press,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9781684483518, 978-1684483518\nSynopsis\nSamuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as a most unclubbable man.\"" Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Greg Clingham, taking as its theme textual and social group formations. Here, Philip Smallwood examines the mirrored minds of Johnson and Shakespeare, while David Hopkins parses intersections of the general and particular in three key eighteenth-century figure.