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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... offers fresh readings of all the writer's major works , viewed through the lens of two ongoing preoccu- pations : the urge to do great deeds — and the sense that bold expectations are ( continued on back flap ) This One K957-6KA - 2HFY ...
... offers more of a challenge , however , than Samuel Johnson . For most of the last two centuries , Johnson's personality — or what Bertrand Bronson more accurately called his " folk - image " 1 — has tended to be far better known than ...
... offers a popular setting for the rise of authorship , almost every period since the fifteenth century has also been nominated . But far more remark- able are the variety and ingenuity of material explanations for the author's birth ...
... offers a perfect case for testing assumptions about what an author must be . The case might also be posed in Johnsonian terms . The principle that " human nature is always the same , " 13 no matter how customs and manners may change ...
... offers encouragement at the earliest , darkest moment ; a lover relieves the dreariness of indiffer- ence and solitude . In all these ways Lord Chesterfield has fallen short ; he has never cared to reconnoiter the rocks . Thus Johnson ...
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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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