Samuel Johnson In Context

Author : Jack Lynch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107429574
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Johnson in Context written by Jack Lynch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few authors benefit from being set in their contemporary context more than Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson in Context is a guide to his world, offering readers a comprehensive account of eighteenth-century life and culture as it relates to his work. Short, lively and eminently readable chapters illuminate not only Johnson's own life, writings and career, but the literary, critical, journalistic, social, political, scientific, artistic, medical and financial contexts in which his works came into being. Written by leading experts in Johnson and in eighteenth-century studies, these chapters offer both depth and range of information and suggestions for further study and research. Richly illustrated, with a chronology of Johnson's life and works and an extensive bibliography, this book is a major new work of reference on eighteenth-century culture and the age of Johnson.

Author : John T. Lynch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052119010X
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Johnson in Context written by John T. Lynch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work of reference on 'the age of Johnson', putting literature in the context of the society that produced it.

Author : W. Jackson Bate
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1582435243
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by W. Jackson Bate and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Johnson is a writer of such significance that his era — the second half of the 18th century — is known as the Age of Johnson. Starting out as a Grub Street journalist, he made his mark on history as a poet, author, moralist, literary critic, political commentator, and lexiconographer. We, as moderns, need to know this man, and W. Jackson Bate's formidable biography, with its uncanny depth and empathy, is the book that makes that happen. Professor W. Jackson Bate is a lyrical writer who deftly explains the effect Johnson has had on scholars, critics, and readers of all kinds through the past 200 years: "The reason Johnson has always fascinated so many people of different kinds," Bate writes, "is not simply that [he] is so vividly picturesque and quotable . . . The deeper secret of his hypnotic attraction, especially during our own generation, lies in the immense reassurance he gives to human nature." Bate delves deep into the character that formed Johnson's intellect and fueled his prodigious contribution to literature, religion, politics, and our understanding of the nature of humankind, revealing the fascinating nature — both odd and adored — of this literary luminary.

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 : Peter Martin
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0297856162
Total Pages : 544 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 544 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 : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300258003
Total Pages : 853 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by Samuel Johnson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth-century Britain’s pre-eminent lexicographer, critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was eighteenth-century Britain’s preeminent man of letters, and his influence endures to this day. He excelled as a moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet. This anthology, designed to make Johnson’s essential works accessible to students and general readers, draws its texts from the definitive Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. In most cases, texts are included in full rather than excerpted. The anthology includes many essays from The Rambler and other periodicals; Rasselas; the prefaces to Johnson’s Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare; the complete Lives of Cowley, Milton, Pope, Savage, and Gray, as well as generous selections from A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Some parts are arranged thematically, allowing readers to focus on such topics as religion, marriage, war, and literature. The anthology includes a biographical introduction, and its ample annotation updates and enlarges the commentary in the Yale Edition.

Author : John Hawkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. written by John Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
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Download or read book Taxation No Tyranny written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Johnson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
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Download or read book The Works of Samuel Johnson: Lives of the poets written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Johnson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
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Download or read book The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: