Samuel Johnson After 300 Years
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Author |
: Greg Clingham |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 293 |
Release |
: 2009-05-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521888219 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521888212 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Samuel Johnson After 300 Years by : Greg Clingham
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.
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 |
: Jack Lynch |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 128 |
Release |
: 2009-05-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802719348 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802719341 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Samuel Johnson's Insults by : Jack Lynch
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.
Author |
: Samuel Johnson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 1815 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCM:5315929074 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by : Samuel Johnson
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 |
: J. Clark |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 2012-06-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137264725 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137264721 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Interpretation of Samuel Johnson by : J. Clark
A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive conclusion, retrieving the 'historic Johnson.'
Author |
: Samuel Johnson |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 560 |
Release |
: 2009-05-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191622731 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191622737 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Lives of the Poets by : Samuel Johnson
'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope - are memorable cameos of the life of writing in which Johnson is as attentive to human frailty as to literary prowess. The shorter Lives preserve some of Johnson's most piercing, critical judgements. Unsentimental, opinionated, and quotable, The Lives of the Poets continues to influence the reputations of the writers concerned. It is one of the greatest works of English criticism, but also one of the most humanly diverting. This selection of the Lives of ten of the most important poets draws its text from Roger Lonsdale's authoritative complete edition. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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 |
: Jack Lynch |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 705 |
Release |
: 2022-09-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198794660 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198794665 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson by : Jack Lynch
No major author worked in more genres than Samuel Johnson--essays, poetry, fiction, criticism, biography, scholarly editing, lexicography, translation, sermons, journalism. His works are more extensive than those of any other canonical English writer, and no earlier writer's life was documented as thoroughly by contemporaries. Because it's so difficult to know him thoroughly, people have made do with surrogates and simplifications. But Johnson was much more complicated than the popular image of 'Dr. Johnson' suggests: socially conservative but also one of the most radical abolitionists of his age, a firm believer in social hierarchy but an outspoken supporter of women intellectuals, an uncompromising Christian moralist but also a penetrating critic of family structures. Labels fit him poorly. In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, an international team of thirty-six scholars offers the most comprehensive examination ever attempted of one of the most complex figures in English literature. The book's first section examines Johnson's life and the texts of his works; the second, organized by genre, explores all his major works and many of his minor ones; the third, organized by topic, covers the subjects that were most important to him as a writer, as a thinker, and as a moralist.
Author |
: Greg Clingham |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 505 |
Release |
: 2022-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108967112 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108967116 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson by : Greg Clingham
Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find the New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson deeply informed and appealingly written. Each newly commissioned chapter explores aspects of Johnson's writing and thought, including his ethical grasp of life, his views of language, the roots of his ideas in Renaissance humanism, and his skeptical-humane style. Among the themes engaged are history, disability, gender, politics, race, slavery, Johnson's representation in art, and the significance of the Yale Edition. Works discussed include Johnson's poetry and fiction, his moral essays and political tracts, his Shakespeare edition and Dictionary, and his critical, biographical, and travel writing. A narrated Further Reading provides an informative guide to the study of Johnson, and a substantial Introduction highlights how his literary practice, philosophical values, and life experience provide a challenge to readers new and established. Through fresh, integrated insights, this authoritative guide reveals the surprising contemporaneity of Johnson's thought.