Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300125178
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vols 11-13
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300125178
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Debates in Parliament: Dec. 1,1741-Feb. 23, 1743
Author: Samuel JohnsonSamuel 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.
Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
Author: Samuel JohnsonThe Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. In Nine Volumes
Author: Samuel JohnsonThe works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].
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Author: Samuel JohnsonCatalogue of the Public Library, of Concord, N.H.
Author: The Works of Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel JohnsonThe Excellent Mind
Author: Nathan L. KingPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019009625X
Category : Character
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
"What makes for a good education? What does one need to count as well-educated? Knowledge, to be sure. But knowledge is easily forgotten, and today's knowledge may be obsolete tomorrow. Skills, particularly in critical thinking, are crucial as well. But absent the right motivation, graduates may fail to put their skills to good use. In this book, Nathan King argues that intellectual virtues-traits like curiosity, intellectual humility, honesty, intellectual courage, and open-mindedness-are central to any education worthy of the name. Further, such virtues are crucial to our functioning well in everyday life, in areas as diverse as personal relationships, responsible citizenship, civil discourse, and personal success. Our struggles in these areas often result from a failure to think virtuously. Drawing upon recent work in philosophy and psychology, King paints a portrait of virtuous intellectual character-and of the vices such a character opposes. Filled with examples and applications, this book introduces readers to the intellectual virtues: what they are, why they matter, and how we can grow in them"--
Samuel Johnson
Author: Isobel GrundyPublisher: Thomas Reed Publications
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"This collection, then, does not claim to be revolutionary, but it hopes to be revisionary. It sets out from the assumptions that Johnson is easy to love but hard to understand; that there is always some further angle we have not yet grasped; that his readers undergo a persistent experience of having, not without effort, to rethink; and that having made such an effort they may then find themselves in a position to offer new information or new insight. We have tried in this volume, while bearing in mind the wealth of his achievement, to set before our readers some aspects of his writing which have been least well recognized and which have strongest contemporary interest."--Preface, page 8