Samuel Johnson And Eighteenth Century Thought 1 Issued As A Paperback With Corrections

Author : Assistant Professor of English Nicholas Hudson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198122487
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-century Thought. (1. Issued as a Paperback with Corrections.) written by Assistant Professor of English Nicholas Hudson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicholas Hudson
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-century Thought written by Nicholas Hudson and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England Nicholas Hudson argues that Johnson not only came to personify English cultural identity but did much to shape it. Hudson examines his contribution to the creation of the modern English identity, approaching Johnson's writing and conversation from scarcely explored directions of cultural criticism - class politics, feminism, party politics, the public sphere, nationalism, and imperialism. Hudson charts the career of an author who rose from obscurity to fame during precisely the period that England became the dominant force in the Western world. In exploring the relations between Johnson's career and the development of England's modern national identity, Hudson develops new and provocative arguments concerning both Johnson's literary achievement and the nature of English nationhood."--book jacket

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021757999
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Samuel Johnson. [With] the Principal Corrections and Additions to the First Edition written by James Boswell and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson is one of the most important works of English literature. This classic biography provides a vivid portrait of one of England's greatest literary figures, and sheds light on the intellectual and cultural context of the 18th century. With its meticulous attention to detail and engaging prose style, Boswell's book is a must-read for anyone interested in English literature or the history of ideas. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Hazel Wilkinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108191495
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book written by Hazel Wilkinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590–6) occupied an important place in eighteenth-century culture. Spenser influenced almost every major writer of the century, from Alexander Pope to William Wordsworth. What was it like to read Spenser in the eighteenth century? Who made Spenserian books, and how did their owners use and interpret them? The first comprehensive study of all of the eighteenth-century editions of Edmund Spenser addresses these questions through bibliographical analysis, and through examination of the history of the book and of eighteenth-century literature and culture. Within these contexts, Hazel Wilkinson provides new information about the production, contents, texts, and reception of the eighteenth-century editions of Spenser, to illuminate how his cultural presence became so far-reaching. With each chapter structured around a major edition of Spenser's work, this volume provides a timely addition to arguments about the nature of literary history and the growing cult of great writers of the past.

Author : Tommi Alho
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027262004
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Man written by Tommi Alho and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here friends of Anthony W. Johnson honour him as a re-embodiment of the polymathic artist-scholar figure once observable in Ben Jonson, on whom he has done some of his most distinctive work. Part I of the book reflects his strong grounding in English literature and culture of the seventeenth century, with essays, not only on Ben Jonson, but also on university drama, on grammar school drama, and on humanist literary taste. Part II responds to his pioneering flights of culture-imagological time-travel to other periods, with essays on riddles through the ages, on Matthew Arnold’s doubts about Homeric pictorialism, and on anciently comic elements in George Gissing’s urban fiction. Part III celebrates his importance, both as scholar and artist, for the present day, with essays extending imagological analysis to the singer Nick Drake, to the avant-garde Danish poet Morten Søkilde, and to Sean S. Baker’s film Tangerine, plus a climactic celebration of Johnson’s own performances on solo violin and guitar as augmented by self-recording.

Author : Leo Damrosch
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300244967
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Club written by Leo Damrosch and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk’s Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as “the Club.” In this captivating book, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters. With the friendship of the “odd couple” Samuel Johnson and James Boswell at the heart of his narrative, Damrosch conjures up the precarious, exciting, and often brutal world of late eighteenth-century Britain. This is the story of an extraordinary group of people whose ideas helped to shape their age, and our own.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781379382843
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beauties of Johnson written by Samuel Johnson and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T119481 With a final advertisement leaf. London: printed for G. Kearsly, 1782. vii, [5],209, [3]p.; 12°

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781318505593
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Samuel Johnson. With the Principal Corrections and Additions to the First Edition written by James Boswell and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Author : Charles H. Hinnant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by Charles H. Hinnant and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative and incisive book the author re-examines Samuel Johnson's major texts, focusing on his famous review of Soame Jenyns's A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil as a principal source of insight and innovation. He offers a lucid exposition of its ideas and methods, defining for the first time its relation to an important strand in eighteenth-century intellectual history, and assessing its implications for Johnson's moral vision. Hinnant's book will be an indispensable guide for anyone interested in understanding what is most modern in Johnson's thought and writings.

Author : Helen Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108842763
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book written by Helen Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers new readings of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy by considering its design features alongside broader developments in eighteenth-century book production.