Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson: A commentary on Mr. Pope's principles of morality, or essay on man
Author: Samuel JohnsonThe Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson: Sermons
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Although Samuel Johnson is recognized as the central English literary figure of the second half of the 18th century, and the period is often referred to as "The Age of Johnson," no consequential edition of his works has appeared since 1825, and no edition at any time has exercised the care in presenting the complete and accurate text of his works that modern readers require. Now, Yale University is sponsoring a new edition of the works of Samuel Johnson, to include writings identified as his during the last twenty-five years and not printed in any previous collection of his works. -- Publisher.
The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson: Johnson on the English language
Author: Samuel JohnsonThe Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson
Author: Philip SmallwoodPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009369989
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
A compelling case for the importance of the heart and emotions over that of critical theory in Johnson's literary criticism.
Samuel Johnson After 300 Years
Author: Greg ClinghamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521888212
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
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
Author: David NokesPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 080508651X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
In this groundbreaking portrait of Samuel Johnson, Nokes positions the great thinker in his rightful place as an active force in the Enlightenment, not a mere recorder or performer, and demonstrates how his interaction with life impacted his work.
Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674035852
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
In Johnson’s own day he was best known as an essayist, critic, and lexicographer. At the center of this collection are the periodical essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler. Together, these works—allied in their literary, social, and moral concerns—are the ones that continue to speak urgently to readers today.
Samuel Johnson in Context
Author: John T. LynchPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052119010X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
A work of reference on 'the age of Johnson', putting literature in the context of the society that produced it.
Samuel Johnson
Author: Freya JohnstonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199654344
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This text offers wide-ranging coverage of Samuel Johnson's life work, and reception across 15 thematically cohesive chapters. Taking as its point of departure William Hazlitt's famous comparison between Johnson's prose style and a pendulum, this volume will contest and rebalance the metaphor of the pendulum.
Mentoring in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
Author: Anthony W. LeePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317097246
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In the first collection devoted to mentoring relationships in British literature and culture, the editor and contributors offer a fresh lens through which to observe familiar and lesser known authors and texts. Employing a variety of critical and methodological approaches, which reflect the diversity of the mentoring experiences under consideration, the collection highlights in particular the importance of mentoring in expanding print culture. Topics include John Wilmot the Earl of Rochester's relationships to a range of role models, John Dryden's mentoring of women writers, Alexander Pope's problematic attempts at mentoring, the vexed nature of Jonathan Swift's cross-gender and cross-class mentoring relationships, Samuel Richardson's largely unsuccessful efforts to influence Urania Hill Johnson, and an examination of Elizabeth Carter and Samuel Johnson's as co-mentors of one another's work. Taken together, the essays further the case for mentoring as a globally operative critical concept, not only in the eighteenth century, but in other literary periods as well.