caa a22 4500 388048255 CHVBK 20180307125044.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S036123330000627X doi S036123330000627X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S036123330000627X Joy Neill R. Politics and Culture: The Dr. Franklin-Dr. Johnson Connection, with an Analogue [Elektronische Daten] [Neill R. Joy] Benjamin franklin and samuel johnson, august humanists from Opposite sides of the ocean, never met on a social footing sufficiently firm enough for them to leave any first-hand impression of the other or give rise to any dramatic encounter, even though they resided for years in London proximity, carrying on lives of remarkably active social intercourse. Certainly, they knew each other by repute as intellectual forces in the age. Yet attracted as they were to mind, they did not seek out each other's intellectual company, and no mutual acquaintance (and there were a number of them) had the temerity apparently to bring them together. All the while a studied indifference seems to reign on the part of both men — although we cannot know this with any certainty — thwarting otherwise strong reasons that should have conspired to link them in some fashion. This social anomaly from our perspective is that much odder since Franklin's social route, briefly traced in section I, now and then intersects with Johnson's. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Prospects Cambridge University Press 23(1998-10), 59-105 0361-2333 23<59 1998 23 PTS https://doi.org/10.1017/S036123330000627X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S036123330000627X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Joy Neill R. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Prospects Cambridge University Press 23(1998-10), 59-105 0361-2333 23<59 1998 23 PTS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge