Samuel Johnson: The Life of an AuthorHarvard University Press, 01/07/2009 - 384 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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... authorship . Beginning with the defiant letter to Chesterfield that made Johnson a celebri- ty , Samuel Johnson offers fresh readings of all the writer's major works , viewed through the lens of two ongoing preoccu- pations : the urge ...
... authorship implies an insistent claim to authority , and therefore an unavoidable anxiety and guilt on the part of authors . Improbable as it may be , this asso- ciation has stained the name of the author . Another association may well ...
... authorship . Nor does the meaning of " author " remain constant over time . Dur- ing the past few decades , an impressive amount of scholarly atten- tion has been focused on the historical conditions that are supposed to have led to the ...
... authorship — for instance , the way that copy- right laws define an author as an owner — are incontestably mod- ern ) . Clearly , the word has been adaptable . Like authors them- selves , it has survived in hostile times ; and despite ...
... authorship can be so interesting . In the making of every au- thor , acts of imagination collide with the realities of what a market or culture will accept , and perennial aspects of writing adjust to the fashions of a specific time and ...
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Preferments Gate The Vanity of Human Wishes | 86 |
Man of Letters A Dictionary of the English Language | 103 |
The Living World The Rambler | 145 |
Reclaiming Imagination Rasselas | 173 |
The Theater of Mind The Plays of William Shakespeare | 198 |
Journeying Westward Political Writings A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
Touching the Shore The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
The Life to Come Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Abbreviation | 307 |
Notes | 309 |
Index | 363 |
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