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Johnson, Biography and the Novel: The Fictional Afterlife of Richard Savage (2015)
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Seager, N. (2015). Johnson, Biography and the Novel: The Fictional Afterlife of Richard Savage. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 51(2), 152--170. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqv007

This article analyses three novels based on Richard Savage, the scapegrace eighteenth-century poet immortalized in Samuel Johnson's first major biography. Charles Whitehead's Richard Savage: A Romance of Real Life (1841–42), Stanley V. Makower's Rich... Read More about Johnson, Biography and the Novel: The Fictional Afterlife of Richard Savage.