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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... words of William Hamilton as reported by James Boswell at the end of his Life of Johnson (1791). In a sense Johnson scholarship has always been concerned with filling up the space left by Johnson's death in 1784; at the same time it has ...
... words of William Hamilton as reported by James Boswell at the end of his Life of Johnson (1791). In a sense Johnson scholarship has always been concerned with filling up the space left by Johnson's death in 1784; at the same time it has ...
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... words of powerful commonalty. Johnson's languagecreates on the page a general human meetingpoint which existsatonce to repress andto recall personal meanings inwriter and reader alike. “Selfreproach without reformation” isone such ...
... words of powerful commonalty. Johnson's languagecreates on the page a general human meetingpoint which existsatonce to repress andto recall personal meanings inwriter and reader alike. “Selfreproach without reformation” isone such ...
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... word. His generalizations are not pomposities but dangerous risks, literary formulationsin search ofcommon, practical, andpersonally lived applicationsoutside literature. The appeal isalways “open ... to nature” (Shakespeare, I,67): ...
... word. His generalizations are not pomposities but dangerous risks, literary formulationsin search ofcommon, practical, andpersonally lived applicationsoutside literature. The appeal isalways “open ... to nature” (Shakespeare, I,67): ...
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... words forideas upon ourselves or others. To imagine that we aregoing forward when we are only turning round. To thinkthat there isany difference between himthat gives no reason,and himthatgivesa reason, which by his own confession ...
... words forideas upon ourselves or others. To imagine that we aregoing forward when we are only turning round. To thinkthat there isany difference between himthat gives no reason,and himthatgivesa reason, which by his own confession ...
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... words with which to presume to speak onhisown behalf. Instead Johnson himself speaks for Dodd: “The shortness of the timewhich is beforeus, gives little power,even to ourselves,of distinguishing the effects of terrour from thoseof ...
... words with which to presume to speak onhisown behalf. Instead Johnson himself speaks for Dodd: “The shortness of the timewhich is beforeus, gives little power,even to ourselves,of distinguishing the effects of terrour from thoseof ...
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ROBERT FOLKENFLIK 8 Johnson and imperialism | |
Life and literature in Johnsons Lives of the Poets | |
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