Author: James BoswellPublisher: London : T. Cadwell and W. Davies
ISBN:
Category : Hebrides
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: James BoswellPublisher: London : T. Cadwell and W. Davies
ISBN:
Category : Hebrides
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: James BoswellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Samuel Johnson
Author: Peter MartinPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0297856162
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The first new biography for a generation of one of the great figures of English literature Poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, critic, conversationalist and wit, Dr Johnson is one of the great figures of English literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer after Shakespeare. Our view of Johnson has been overwhelmingly shaped by James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, published in 1791, the most famous biography in the English language. But invaluable as Boswell is as a source, he should not be the last word. This new biography illuminates the Johnson that Boswell never knew: the awkward youth, the unsuccessful schoolmaster, the eccentric marriage, his early years in London in the 1740s scratching a living, the epic struggle to produce the Dictionary. Very much the outsider, rather than the supremely confident dispenser of robust common sense. Using material unknown to previous biographers, Peter Martin describes the psychological knife-edge on which Johnson felt he lived, caused by his severe melancholia and his physical diseases. He explores Johnson's role in the publishing and printing world of the time and he reveals how important women were to Johnson throughout his life. The Samuel Johnson that emerges from this enthralling biography is still the foremost figure of his age but a more rebellious, unpredictable and sympathetic figure than the one that Boswell so memorably portrayed.
Dr. Johnson S Works
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017913002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
A Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
Book Description
Samuel Johnson's Insults
Author: Jack LynchPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802719341
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Lackbrain, oysterwench, wantwit, clotpoll--Samuel Johnson's famous dictionary of 1755 contained some of the ripest insults in the English language. In Samuel Johnson's Insults, Jack Lynch has compiled more than 300 of the curmudgeonly lexicographer's mightiest barbs, along with definitions only the master himself could elucidate. Word lovers will delight in flexing their linguistic muscles with devilishly descriptive vituperations that pack a wicked punch. Many of these zingers have long lain dormant. Some have even come close to extinction. Now they're back in all their prickly glory, ready to be relished once more.
The Vanity of Human Wishes
Author: Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson
Author: James James Lowry CliffordPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452911564
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-century Thought
Author: Nicholas HudsonPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Christian literature, English
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"In Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England Nicholas Hudson argues that Johnson not only came to personify English cultural identity but did much to shape it. Hudson examines his contribution to the creation of the modern English identity, approaching Johnson's writing and conversation from scarcely explored directions of cultural criticism - class politics, feminism, party politics, the public sphere, nationalism, and imperialism. Hudson charts the career of an author who rose from obscurity to fame during precisely the period that England became the dominant force in the Western world. In exploring the relations between Johnson's career and the development of England's modern national identity, Hudson develops new and provocative arguments concerning both Johnson's literary achievement and the nature of English nationhood."--book jacket
Author: Samuel Johnson