The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson

The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson

Author: Philip Smallwood

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-09-21

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1009370022

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Philip Smallwood celebrates the emotional power and enduring wisdom of Samuel Johnson's literary criticism, showing how the abyss of the heart informs its powerful life. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.


The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson: Sermons

The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson: Sermons

Author: Samuel Johnson

Publisher:

Published: 1958

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13:

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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.


Samuel Johnson After 300 Years

Samuel Johnson After 300 Years

Author: Greg Clingham

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-05-28

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0521888212

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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 in Context

Samuel Johnson in Context

Author: John T. Lynch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 052119010X

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A work of reference on 'the age of Johnson', putting literature in the context of the society that produced it.


Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Author: Samuel Johnson

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 0674035852

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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

Samuel Johnson

Author: David Nokes

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 080508651X

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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

Samuel Johnson

Author: Freya Johnston

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-11-15

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0199654344

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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

Mentoring in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture

Author: Anthony W. Lee

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1317097246

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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.