Bibliography Of Samuel Johnson

Author : Peter Martin
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0297856162
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by Peter Martin and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first new biography for a generation of one of the great figures of English literature Poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, critic, conversationalist and wit, Dr Johnson is one of the great figures of English literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer after Shakespeare. Our view of Johnson has been overwhelmingly shaped by James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, published in 1791, the most famous biography in the English language. But invaluable as Boswell is as a source, he should not be the last word. This new biography illuminates the Johnson that Boswell never knew: the awkward youth, the unsuccessful schoolmaster, the eccentric marriage, his early years in London in the 1740s scratching a living, the epic struggle to produce the Dictionary. Very much the outsider, rather than the supremely confident dispenser of robust common sense. Using material unknown to previous biographers, Peter Martin describes the psychological knife-edge on which Johnson felt he lived, caused by his severe melancholia and his physical diseases. He explores Johnson's role in the publishing and printing world of the time and he reveals how important women were to Johnson throughout his life. The Samuel Johnson that emerges from this enthralling biography is still the foremost figure of his age but a more rebellious, unpredictable and sympathetic figure than the one that Boswell so memorably portrayed.

Author : Walter Jackson Bate
Publisher : Counterpoint LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781887178761
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by Walter Jackson Bate and published by Counterpoint LLC. This book was released on 1998 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical study of the eighteenth-century lexicographer and critic combines narrative with psychological insights

Author : David Nokes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 080508651X
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by David Nokes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking portrait of Samuel Johnson, Nokes positions the great thinker in his rightful place as an active force in the Enlightenment, not a mere recorder or performer, and demonstrates how his interaction with life impacted his work.

Author : Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher : Oldcastle Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1904915507
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by Jeffrey Meyers and published by Oldcastle Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey Meyers tells the extraordinary story of Samuel Johnson one of the most illustrious figures of English literary tradition. Johnson was famous as a poet, novelist, biographer, essayist, critic, editor, lexicographer, conversationalist and larger than life personality. After nine years of work Johnson's, 'A dictionary of the English Language, was published in 1755. He overcame great adversity to achieve success. 'The Struggle' is a masterful portrait of a brilliant and tormented figure.

Author : William Prideau Courtney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bibliography of Samuel Johnson... written by William Prideau Courtney and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Prideaux Courtney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bibliography of Samuel Johnson written by William Prideaux Courtney and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John A. Vance
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820333778
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Johnson and the Sense of History written by John A. Vance and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No area of Johnsonian studies has been less appreciated and more misunderstood than Johnson's response to history. Popular notions to the effect that he was insensitive to history have discouraged scholars and critics from discovering the role history played in his thinking. In this first book-length investigation of the subject, John A. Vance concludes that few misconceptions about Samuel Johnson have been so glaring as his supposed dislike of history. More specifically, in separate chapters Vance examines the development of Johnson's historical sense--from his readings, heritage, and travels to historical sites; Johnson's recall and use of historical figures and events, most notably the seventeenth-century attitude toward the most maligned member of the historical family, antiquarianism. The author also devotes two chapters to Johnson's historical writings--that is, those works in which he either incorporates history into his critical, biographical, and political discussions or those in which he clearly assumes the role of historian himself. Vance furthermore considers Johnson's views on historical facts, educative and moral history, the broadening scope of historical investigation, the nature of historical truth and skepticism, historical research, historical causation, and the historian's style.

Author : William Prideaux Courtney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781873040171
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bibliography of Samuel Johnson written by William Prideaux Courtney and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Boswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
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Download or read book The life of Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: