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Author: Wendy Laura Belcher Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019979331X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 298
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Uncovers African influences on the Western imagination during the eighteenth century, paying particular attention to the ways Ethiopia inspired and shaped the work of Samuel Johnson.
Author: Wendy Laura Belcher Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019979331X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 298
Book Description
Uncovers African influences on the Western imagination during the eighteenth century, paying particular attention to the ways Ethiopia inspired and shaped the work of Samuel Johnson.
Author: W. B. Carnochan Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 0804760985 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 185
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From the eighteenth century to the present, travellers, explorers, journalists, imaginative writers like Samuel Johnson, and legendary reggae musician Bob Marley have shared a fascination with Abyssinia. So did even earlier writers and mapmakers, who thought Abyssinia was the land of the mythical (and fabulously rich) Christian ruler, Prester John. The principal subject of this book is the allure of the exotic, as represented by Abyssinia, to the British imagination. In addition to Johnson and Marley, some others included are the eighteenth-century Scot James Bruce, nineteenth-century explorer Richard Burton, author Evelyn Waugh, Wilfred Thesiger (best known of twentieth-century British explorers), Sylvia Pankhurst (crusading journalist and daughter of the suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst), and the contemporary Irish traveller Dervla Murphy. The author also considers the beginnings of anthropology and the variations of quest narrative in modern travel writing.
Author: Samuel Johnson Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 162
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, originally titled The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale, though often abbreviated to Rasselas, is an apologue about bliss and ignorance by Samuel Johnson. The book's original working title was "The Choice of Life". The book was first published in April 1759 in England. Early readers considered Rasselas to be a work of philosophical and practical importance and critics often remark on the difficulty of classifying it as a novel.
Author: Richard B. Schwartz Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press ISBN: 9780299094942 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 220
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"A rich, fascinating, enlightening if sometimes slightly terrifying tableau of real life in one of the world's most celebrated cities."--Los Angeles Times
Author: Barbara Schaff Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110498979 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 628
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This handbook offers a systematic exploration of current key topics in travel writing studies. It addresses the history, impact, and unique discursive variety of British travel writing by covering some of the most celebrated and canonical authors of the genre as well as lesser known ones in more than thirty close-reading chapters. Combining theoretically informed, astute literary criticism of single texts with the analysis of the circumstances of their production and reception, these chapters offer excellent possibilities for understanding the complexity and cultural relevance of British travel writing.
Author: Anthony W. Lee Publisher: ISBN: 9781789629293 Category : Modernism (Literature) Languages : en Pages :
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This text brings Johnson more sharply into focus by casting him amongst an unfamiliar milieu and company; likewise, it is hoped that by bringing Johnson to bear on the various authors and topics gathered, it manages to foreground some aspects of Modernism and its practitioners that would otherwise remain elusively hidden. If it is unlikely that the phrase 'Modernity Johnson' will eclipse such better-known appellations as 'Dictionary Johnson' and 'the Rambler,' this volume suggests that it urges a rethinking of both Johnson and Modernism in ways that are at once compelling, illuminating, and critically productive.
Author: Wendy Laura Belcher
Author: Wendy Laura Belcher
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Author: Samuel Johnson
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Author: Samuel Johnson
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Author: Anthony W. Lee