Samuel Johnson In Context
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Author |
: Jack Lynch |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014-07-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1107429579 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781107429574 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Samuel Johnson in Context by : Jack Lynch
Few authors benefit from being set in their contemporary context more than Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson in Context is a guide to his world, offering readers a comprehensive account of eighteenth-century life and culture as it relates to his work. Short, lively and eminently readable chapters illuminate not only Johnson's own life, writings and career, but the literary, critical, journalistic, social, political, scientific, artistic, medical and financial contexts in which his works came into being. Written by leading experts in Johnson and in eighteenth-century studies, these chapters offer both depth and range of information and suggestions for further study and research. Richly illustrated, with a chronology of Johnson's life and works and an extensive bibliography, this book is a major new work of reference on eighteenth-century culture and the age of Johnson.
Author |
: W. Jackson Bate |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2009-08-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781582435244 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1582435243 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Samuel Johnson by : W. Jackson Bate
Samuel Johnson is a writer of such significance that his era — the second half of the 18th century — is known as the Age of Johnson. Starting out as a Grub Street journalist, he made his mark on history as a poet, author, moralist, literary critic, political commentator, and lexiconographer. We, as moderns, need to know this man, and W. Jackson Bate's formidable biography, with its uncanny depth and empathy, is the book that makes that happen. Professor W. Jackson Bate is a lyrical writer who deftly explains the effect Johnson has had on scholars, critics, and readers of all kinds through the past 200 years: "The reason Johnson has always fascinated so many people of different kinds," Bate writes, "is not simply that [he] is so vividly picturesque and quotable . . . The deeper secret of his hypnotic attraction, especially during our own generation, lies in the immense reassurance he gives to human nature." Bate delves deep into the character that formed Johnson's intellect and fueled his prodigious contribution to literature, religion, politics, and our understanding of the nature of humankind, revealing the fascinating nature — both odd and adored — of this literary luminary.
Author |
: Jeffrey Meyers |
Publisher |
: Oldcastle Books Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 543 |
Release |
: 2015-11-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781904915508 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1904915507 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Samuel Johnson by : Jeffrey Meyers
Jeffrey Meyers tells the extraordinary story of Samuel Johnson one of the most illustrious figures of English literary tradition. Johnson was famous as a poet, novelist, biographer, essayist, critic, editor, lexicographer, conversationalist and larger than life personality. After nine years of work Johnson's, 'A dictionary of the English Language, was published in 1755. He overcame great adversity to achieve success. 'The Struggle' is a masterful portrait of a brilliant and tormented figure.
Author |
: Peter Martin |
Publisher |
: Hachette UK |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2012-08-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780297856160 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0297856162 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Samuel Johnson by : Peter Martin
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.
Author |
: John T. Lynch |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 473 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521190107 |
ISBN-13 |
: 052119010X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Samuel Johnson in Context by : John T. Lynch
A work of reference on 'the age of Johnson', putting literature in the context of the society that produced it.
Author |
: James Macpherson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 1763 |
ISBN-10 |
: ONB:+Z181530808 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Temora, an Ancient Epic Poem by : James Macpherson
Author |
: Samuel Johnson |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 1831 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCM:5325874705 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by : Samuel Johnson
Author |
: John Hawkins |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 636 |
Release |
: 1787 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:400311898 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by : John Hawkins
Author |
: Samuel Johnson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 92 |
Release |
: 1775 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:N11714528 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Taxation No Tyranny by : Samuel Johnson
Author |
: Paul Fussell |
Publisher |
: W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 1986 |
ISBN-10 |
: 039330258X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780393302585 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (8X Downloads) |
Synopsis Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing by : Paul Fussell
Focuses on the struggles and pressures which attended the literary career of the eighteenth-century figure