Samuel Johnson After 300 Years
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Samuel Johnson After 300 Years
Author | : Greg Clingham,Philip Smallwood |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2009-05-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521888219 |
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To mark the tercentenary of Samuel Johnson's birth in 2009, the specially-commissioned essays contained here review his scholarly reputation. An international team of experts reflects authoritatively on the various dimensions of literary, historical, critical and ethical life touched by Johnson's extraordinary achievement. The volume distinctively casts its net widely and combines consistently innovative thinking on Johnson's historical role with a fresh sense of present criticism. Chapters cover subjects as diverse as Johnson's moral philosophy, his legal thought, his influence on Jane Austen, and the question of the Johnson canon. The contributors examine the larger theoretical and scholarly contexts in which it is now possible to situate his work, and from which it may often be necessary to differentiate it. All the contributors have a distinguished record of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies, Johnson scholarship, and cultural history and theory.
The Reformist Ideas of Samuel Johnson
Author | : Stefka Ritchie |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2017-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781443879125 |
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This book explores what remains an under-studied aspect of Samuel Johnson’s profile as a person and writer – namely, his attitude to social improvement. The interpretive framework provided here is cross-disciplinary, and applies perspectives from social and cultural history, legal history, architectural history and, of course, English literature. This allows Johnson’s writings to be read against the peculiarities of their historical milieu, and reveals Johnson in a new light – as an advocate of social improvement for human betterment. Considering the multiplicity of narrative modes that have been employed, the book points to the blurred boundaries and overlapping between history, testimony and fiction, and argues that a future biography of Samuel Johnson has to recognise that throughout his life he valued the utilitarian aspect of his manifesto as a writer to impart a more charitable attitude in the pursuit of a more caring society.
Samuel Johnson and the Powers of Friendship
Author | : A. D. Cousins,Daniel Derrin,Dani Napton |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2023-11-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781000990317 |
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This book is the first to assess Johnson’s diverse insights into friendship—that is to say, his profound as well as widely ranging appreciation of it—over the course of his long literary career. It examines his engagements with ancient philosophies of friendship and with subsequent reformulations of or departures from that diverse inheritance. The volume explores and illuminates Johnson’s understanding of friendship in the private and public spheres—in particular, friendship’s therapeutic amelioration of personal experience and transformative impact upon civil life. Doing so, it considers both his portrayals of interaction with his friends and his more overtly fictional representations of friendship across the many genres in which he wrote. It presents at once an original re-assessment of Johnson’s writings and new interpretations of friendship as an element of civility in mid-eighteenth-century British culture.
Samuel Johnson in Context
Author | : John T. Lynch |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521190107 |
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A work of reference on 'the age of Johnson', putting literature in the context of the society that produced it.
The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson
Author | : Philip Smallwood |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2023-09-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781009370028 |
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Philip Smallwood celebrates the emotional power and enduring wisdom of Samuel Johnson's literary criticism, showing how the abyss of the heart informs its powerful life. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
The Interpretation of Samuel Johnson
Author | : J. Clark,H. Erskine-Hill |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2012-06-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781137264725 |
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A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive conclusion, retrieving the 'historic Johnson.'
Samuel Johnson
Author | : Samuel Johnson |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 853 |
Release | : 2021-01-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780300258004 |
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A one-volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth-century Britain’s pre-eminent lexicographer, critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was eighteenth-century Britain’s preeminent man of letters, and his influence endures to this day. He excelled as a moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet. This anthology, designed to make Johnson’s essential works accessible to students and general readers, draws its texts from the definitive Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. In most cases, texts are included in full rather than excerpted. The anthology includes many essays from The Rambler and other periodicals; Rasselas; the prefaces to Johnson’s Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare; the complete Lives of Cowley, Milton, Pope, Savage, and Gray, as well as generous selections from A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Some parts are arranged thematically, allowing readers to focus on such topics as religion, marriage, war, and literature. The anthology includes a biographical introduction, and its ample annotation updates and enlarges the commentary in the Yale Edition.
A Political Biography of Samuel Johnson
Author | : Nicholas Hudson |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317323440 |
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Johnson rose from obscure origins to become a major literary figure of the eighteenth century. Through a detailed survey of his major works and political journalism, Hudson constructs a complex picture of Johnson as a moralist forced to accept the realistic nature of politics during an era of revolutionary transition.