Samuel JohnsonHarvard University Press, 1998 - 372 páginas He was a servant to the public, a writer for hire. He was a hero, an author adding to the glory of his nation. But can a writer be both hack and hero? The career of Samuel Johnson, recounted here by Lawrence Lipking, proves that the two can be one. And it further proves, in its enduring interest for readers, that academic fashions today may be a bit hasty in pronouncing the "death of the author." |
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... Eighteenth Century Quakerism ( London : Allen & Unwin , 1927 ) , pp . 73–75 . The feminist implications of Drummond's preaching are spelled out in a poem suspiciously attributed to “ a young Lady " in Gentleman's Magazine 5 ( 1735 ) ...
... Eighteenth - Century Poetry 1660-1780 ( Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1981 ) , chap . 4. I have written about the innovations of the 1740s in " The Genie in the Lamp : M. H. Abrams and the Motives of Literary History , " in High ...
... Eighteenth- Century England ( Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1970 ) . See also Doug- las Lane Patey , " The Eighteenth Century Invents the Canon , " Modern Lan- guage Studies 18 ( 1988 ) : 17-37 . 8. BLJ 3 : 137 . 9. Rambler ...
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the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
Johnsons Endings | 295 |
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