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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... scholars who helped form this book can be men- tioned here , but special thanks go to M. H. Abrams , W. Jackson Bate , Wayne C. Booth , Helen Deutsch , Robert Folkenflik , A. Walton Litz , Hugh Ormsby - Lennon , Pat Rogers , Nicola ...
... scholars have been es- pecially welcoming , but people who might find a kindred spirit in Johnson , if only they knew him better , have always been the audi- ence I have had in mind . More than one chapter of this book changed radically ...
... scholarship of James L. Clifford's Young Sam Johnson ( 1955 ) and Dictionary Johnson ( 1979 ) , the lively human interest of John Wain's Samuel Johnson ( 1974 ) , and the psy- chological depth of W. Jackson Bate's Samuel Johnson ( 1977 ) ...
... they took delight in challenging orthodox views . Today that orthodoxy no longer recruits many scholars and critics , and a new anti - authorial consensus has largely replaced it . The reasons for this change are very 3 Introduction.
... scholarly atten- tion has been focused on the historical conditions that are supposed to have led to the birth — and death — of the author . Impatient with metaphysics , many scholars have sought the explanation of author- ship in the ...
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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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