Samuel JohnsonNorthcote House, 2005 - 100 páginas Despite his status as one of the founding fathers of modern English literature, few of Samuel Johnson's works are widely read today. This book suggests that his writings need to be appreciated in the context of contemporary debates over the role and status of literature within a rapidly expanding culture. |
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... novel , popularizing the epistolary form and the importance of sentiment within fiction . Yet Fielding's emphasis on experience was perhaps a more lasting legacy , leading to the Bildungsroman , or apprenticeship novel , of the ...
... novel , popularizing the epistolary form and the importance of sentiment within fiction . Yet Fielding's emphasis on experience was perhaps a more lasting legacy , leading to the Bildungsroman , or apprenticeship novel , of the ...
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... novel is also concerned with the question of ' how to live ' . Both works deal with issues of marriage , career , and social morality , in order to ascertain how men and women can live virtuously in the modern world . Fielding explores ...
... novel is also concerned with the question of ' how to live ' . Both works deal with issues of marriage , career , and social morality , in order to ascertain how men and women can live virtuously in the modern world . Fielding explores ...
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... novel , literary criticism and periodical essays as well as the famous dictionary . Yet despite his legendary status as one of the founding fathers of modern English literature , few of Johnson's works are widely read today . This book ...
... novel , literary criticism and periodical essays as well as the famous dictionary . Yet despite his legendary status as one of the founding fathers of modern English literature , few of Johnson's works are widely read today . This book ...
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London and The Vanity of Human Wishes | 1 |
The Rambler and the Idler | 25 |
The Dictionary | 39 |
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