The Cambridge Companion to Samuel JohnsonGreg Clingham Cambridge University Press, 16/10/1997 The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and intellectual life of one of the most challenging and wide-ranging writers in English literary history. Compiler of the first great English dictionary, editor of Shakespeare, biographer and critic of the English poets, author both of the influential journal Rambler and the popular fiction Rasselas, and one of the most engaging conversationalists in literary culture, Johnson is here illuminatingly discussed from a different point of view. Essays on his main works are complemented by thematic discussion of his views on the experience of women in the eighteenth century, politics, imperialism, religion, and travel as well as by chapters covering his life, conversation, letters, and critical reception. Useful reference features include a chronology and guide to further reading. The keynote to the volume is the seamlessness of Johnson's life and writing, and the extraordinary humane intelligence he brought to all his activities. Accessibly written by a distinguished group of international scholars, this volume supplies a stimulating range of approaches, making Johnson newly relevant for our time. |
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... Knowledge, Culture and Communication (1995). T O M K E Y MERis a Fellow and Tutor inEnglish at St.Anne's College, Oxford, andaLecturer ofthe university.His publications include Clarissa and the EighteenthCentury Reader (1992),anedition ...
... Knowledge, Culture and Communication (1995). T O M K E Y MERis a Fellow and Tutor inEnglish at St.Anne's College, Oxford, andaLecturer ofthe university.His publications include Clarissa and the EighteenthCentury Reader (1992),anedition ...
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... knowledge, couldbe as much hisenemyashis friend. Moreover, Johnsonfeared thathe had inherited a dangerous tendency to severe depression fromhis father. Johnson's father, Michael, was an impecunious Lichfield booksellerwho in theendwould ...
... knowledge, couldbe as much hisenemyashis friend. Moreover, Johnsonfeared thathe had inherited a dangerous tendency to severe depression fromhis father. Johnson's father, Michael, was an impecunious Lichfield booksellerwho in theendwould ...
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... knowledge of the writerinwhose performances theymay be found,have indeedhad frequentreasonto repent their curiosity;the bubble that sparkled beforethem hasbecomecommon water at the touch;the phantom of perfection has vanished when they ...
... knowledge of the writerinwhose performances theymay be found,have indeedhad frequentreasonto repent their curiosity;the bubble that sparkled beforethem hasbecomecommon water at the touch;the phantom of perfection has vanished when they ...
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... to take other failuresin. At other times,likethe deranged astronomer in Rasselas, Johnson almost believed hecould havebeen an intellectual superman, a new Renaissance universal mind bringing together all fields of knowledge. But.
... to take other failuresin. At other times,likethe deranged astronomer in Rasselas, Johnson almost believed hecould havebeen an intellectual superman, a new Renaissance universal mind bringing together all fields of knowledge. But.
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Greg Clingham. Renaissance universal mind bringing together all fields of knowledge. But too often his intelligence only served to show him what he could not know. What he said of the difficulty of definition in the Dictionaryis true ...
Greg Clingham. Renaissance universal mind bringing together all fields of knowledge. But too often his intelligence only served to show him what he could not know. What he said of the difficulty of definition in the Dictionaryis true ...
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Life and literature in Johnsons Lives of the Poets | |
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