Johnson's Milton

Johnson's Milton
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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ISBN-10 : 9781139485920
ISBN-13 : 113948592X
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Synopsis Johnson's Milton by : Christine Rees

Samuel Johnson is often represented as primarily antagonistic or antipathetic to Milton. Yet his imaginative and intellectual engagement with Milton's life and writing extended across the entire span of his own varied writing career. As essayist, poet, lexicographer, critic and biographer - above all as reader - Johnson developed a controversial, fascinating and productive literary relationship with his powerful predecessor. To understand how Johnson creatively appropriates Milton's texts, how he critically challenges yet also confirms Milton's status, and how he constructs him as a biographical subject, is to deepen the modern reader's understanding of both writers in the context of historical continuity and change. Christine Rees's insightful study will be of interest not only to Milton and Johnson specialists, but to all scholars of early modern literary history and biography.

Johnson's Milton

Johnson's Milton
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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ISBN-10 : 1107422515
ISBN-13 : 9781107422513
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Synopsis Johnson's Milton by : Christine Rees

Samuel Johnson is often represented as primarily antagonistic or antipathetic to Milton. Yet his imaginative and intellectual engagement with Milton's life and writing extended across the entire span of his own varied writing career. As essayist, poet, lexicographer, critic and biographer - above all as reader - Johnson developed a controversial, fascinating and productive literary relationship with his powerful predecessor. To understand how Johnson creatively appropriates Milton's texts, how he critically challenges yet also confirms Milton's status, and how he constructs him as a biographical subject, is to deepen the modern reader's understanding of both writers in the context of historical continuity and change. Christine Rees's insightful study will be of interest not only to Milton and Johnson specialists, but to all scholars of early modern literary history and biography.

The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson

The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 235
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ISBN-10 : 9781009369985
ISBN-13 : 1009369989
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson by : Philip Smallwood

A compelling case for the importance of the heart and emotions over that of critical theory in Johnson's literary criticism.

Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography

Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography
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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 0813132908
ISBN-13 : 9780813132907
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography by : David Wheeler

Biography was Samuel Johnson's favorite among literary genres, and his Lives of the Poets is often regarded as the capstone of his career. The central place of biography in his oeuvre is explored in this collection of nine original essays by leading Johnson scholars. Varied in their focus and approach, the essays range from a philosophical overview of Johnson's notion of the relation between life and art, to a detailed reading of the Life of Milton, to a speculation on the value of the Lives in the classroom. Emerging clearly in the essays are the dual concerns -- artistic and intellectual.

Dinner with Joseph Johnson

Dinner with Joseph Johnson
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 536
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ISBN-10 : 9780691243962
ISBN-13 : 0691243964
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Dinner with Joseph Johnson by : Daisy Hay

A fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller—from William Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft to Benjamin Franklin Once a week, in late eighteenth-century London, writers of contrasting politics and personalities gathered around a dining table. The veal and boiled vegetables may have been unappetising but the company was convivial and the conversation brilliant and unpredictable. The host was Joseph Johnson, publisher and bookseller: a man at the heart of literary life. In this book, Daisy Hay paints a remarkable portrait of a revolutionary age through the connected stories of the men and women who wrote it into being, and whose ideas still influence us today. Johnson’s years as a publisher, 1760 to 1809, witnessed profound political, social, cultural and religious changes—from the American and French revolutions to birth of the Romantic age—and many of his dinner guests and authors were at the center of events. The shifting constellation of extraordinary people at Johnson’s table included William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Benjamin Franklin, the scientist Joseph Priestly and the Swiss artist Henry Fuseli, as well as a group of extraordinary women—Mary Wollstonecraft, the novelist Maria Edgeworth, and the poet Anna Barbauld. These figures pioneered revolutions in science and medicine, proclaimed the rights of women and children and charted the evolution of Britain’s relationship with America and Europe. As external forces conspired to silence their voices, Johnson made them heard by continuing to publish them, just as his table gave them refuge. A rich work of biography and cultural history, Dinner with Joseph Johnson is an entertaining and enlightening story of a group of people who left an indelible mark on the modern age.

A History of Howard Johnson's

A History of Howard Johnson's
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 9781614239161
ISBN-13 : 1614239169
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis A History of Howard Johnson's by : Anthony Mitchell Sammarco

The iconic restaurant chain that defined Americana by introducing twenty-eight flavors of ice cream, “tendersweet” clam strips, grilled “frankforts,” and more. Popularly known as the “Father of the Franchise Industry,” Howard Johnson delivered good food and fair prices—a winning combination that brought appreciative customers back for more. The attractive white Colonial Revival restaurants, with eye-catching porcelain tile roofs, illuminated cupolas, and sea blue shutters, were described in Reader’s Digest in 1949 as the epitome of “eating places that look like New England town meeting houses dressed up for Sunday.” Learn how Johnson created an orange-roofed empire of ice cream stands and restaurants that stretched from Maine to Florida . . . then all the way across the country.

Samuel Johnson and the Powers of Friendship

Samuel Johnson and the Powers of Friendship
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : 9781000990317
ISBN-13 : 1000990311
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Samuel Johnson and the Powers of Friendship by : A. D. Cousins

This book is the first to assess Johnson’s diverse insights into friendship—that is to say, his profound as well as widely ranging appreciation of it—over the course of his long literary career. It examines his engagements with ancient philosophies of friendship and with subsequent reformulations of or departures from that diverse inheritance. The volume explores and illuminates Johnson’s understanding of friendship in the private and public spheres—in particular, friendship’s therapeutic amelioration of personal experience and transformative impact upon civil life. Doing so, it considers both his portrayals of interaction with his friends and his more overtly fictional representations of friendship across the many genres in which he wrote. It presents at once an original re-assessment of Johnson’s writings and new interpretations of friendship as an element of civility in mid-eighteenth-century British culture.

New Essays on Samuel Johnson

New Essays on Samuel Johnson
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9781611496796
ISBN-13 : 1611496799
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis New Essays on Samuel Johnson by : Anthony W. Lee

New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation is a collection of essays by various hands that examines its point of focus, the inexhaustible English author Samuel Johnson, from a variety of different critical perspectives. The book also simultaneously interrogates particular texts (such as the Dictionary, the Lives of the Poets) alongside general themes (such as Johnson and intertextuality, Johnson and autobiography). The word “revaluation” from the title connotes both the deployment of specifically au courant approaches—viewing, for example, Johnson in relation to climate change, or Johnson and the notion of “osmology”—as well as more general reflections upon Johnson’s importance to our present cultural and temporal moment.

The Age of Johnson

The Age of Johnson
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9781684483020
ISBN-13 : 1684483026
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis The Age of Johnson by : Jack Lynch

The move to a new publisher has given The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual the opportunity to recommit to what it does best: present to a wide readership cant-free scholarly articles and essays and searching book reviews, all featuring a wide variety of approaches, written by both seasoned scholars and relative newcomers. Volume 24 features commentary on a range of Johnsonian topics: his reaction to Milton, his relation to the Allen family, his notes in his edition of Shakespeare, his use of Oliver Goldsmith in his Dictionary, and his always fascinating Nachleben. The volume also includes articles on topics of strong interest to Johnson: penal reform, Charlotte Lennox's professional literary career, and the "conjectural history" of Homer in the eighteenth century. For more than two decades, The Age of Johnson has presented a vast corpus of Johnsonian studies "in the broadest sense," as founding editor Paul J. Korshin put it in the preface to Volume 1, and it has retained the interest of a wide readership. In thousands of pages of articles, review essays, and reviews, The Age of Johnson has made a permanent contribution to our understanding of the eighteenth century, and particularly of Samuel Johnson, his circle, and his interests, and has also served as an outlet for writers who are not academics but have something important to say about the eighteenth century. ISSN 0884-5816.

The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
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Total Pages : 562
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ISBN-10 : BSB:BSB11425859
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Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by : James Boswell