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Samuel Johnson s general Nature
Author | : Scott D. Evans |
Publsiher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Philosophy of nature |
ISBN | : 0874136962 |
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This study illuminates the importance and meaning of the term author in eighteenth-century discourse from the perspective of its prominent usage by Samuel Johnson. It explains Johnson's employment of nature in his periodical essays, his qualified endorsement of the new science, and his commendation of Shakespeare's drama and other literary works on the basis of their just representation of general nature.
The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson
Author | : Greg Clingham |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1997-10-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521556252 |
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This Companion, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and life of one of the key figures in English literary history.
The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson
Author | : Jack Lynch |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 705 |
Release | : 2022-08-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780192513595 |
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No major author worked in more genres than Samuel Johnson—essays, poetry, fiction, criticism, biography, scholarly editing, lexicography, translation, sermons, journalism. His works are more extensive than those of any other canonical English writer, and no earlier writer's life was documented as thoroughly by contemporaries. Because it's so difficult to know him thoroughly, people have made do with surrogates and simplifications. But Johnson was much more complicated than the popular image of 'Dr. Johnson' suggests: socially conservative but also one of the most radical abolitionists of his age, a firm believer in social hierarchy but an outspoken supporter of women intellectuals, an uncompromising Christian moralist but also a penetrating critic of family structures. Labels fit him poorly. In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, an international team of thirty-six scholars offers the most comprehensive examination ever attempted of one of the most complex figures in English literature. The book's first section examines Johnson's life and the texts of his works; the second, organized by genre, explores all his major works and many of his minor ones; the third, organized by topic, covers the subjects that were most important to him as a writer, as a thinker, and as a moralist.
Samuel Johnson s Lives of the Poets
Author | : Roger Lonsdale |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2006-02-16 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780191569401 |
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Johnson himself wrote in 1782: 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets'. Always recognized as a major biographical and critical achievement, Samuel Johnson's last literary project is also one of his most readable and entertaining, written with characteristic eloquence and conviction, and at times with combative trenchancy. Johnson's fifty-two biographies constitute a detailed survey of English poetry from the early seventeenth century down to his own time, with extended discussions of Cowley, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Addison, Prior, Swift, Pope, and Gray. The Lives also include Johnson's memorable biography of the enigmatic Richard Savage (1744), the friend of his own early years in London. Roger Lonsdale's Introduction describes the origins, composition, and textual history of the Lives, and assesses Johnson's assumptions and aims as biographer and critic. The commentary provides a detailed literary and historical context, investigating Johnson's sources, relating the Lives to his own earlier writings and conversation, and to the critical opinions of his contemporaries, as well as illustrating their early reception. This is the first scholarly edition since George Birkbeck Hill's three-volume Oxford edition (1905). This is volume one of four.
The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson
Author | : Samuel Johnson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1840 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433074965876 |
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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.
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.
Samuel Johnson in Context
Author | : John T. Lynch |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
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.