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Author | : David Nokes |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 080508651X |
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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 | : John A. Vance |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 082033376X |
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When it first appeared in 1985, Boswell's Life of Johnson brought together the most recent and most lively assessments of the literary merit and historical accuracy of Boswell's biography. In an invigorating exchange placed at the center of the collection, Donald Greene's description of the Life as a fictionalized biography that screens the real, complex Johnson from view is challenged by Frederick Pottle's defense of Boswell's biographical method, of his sturdy compilation of detail that presents the factual rather than the fictional Johnson. Other essays explore the effect of Johnson's humor on the shaping of his image in the Life, the recent developments in literary criticism and the effect they have had on eighteenth-century studies, and the continuing interest of Boswell's Life as a showcase for members of Johnson's famous circle. The volume concludes with an assessment of the Boswellian problem--of the difficulties the Life presents to readers, scholars, and teachers.
Author | : James Boswell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1811 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert DeMaria Jr. |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 1997-04-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0801854792 |
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In Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, Robert DeMaria considers the surprising influence of one of the greatest readers in English literature. Johnson's relationship to books not only reveals much about his life and times, DeMaria contends, but also provides a dramatic counterpoint to modern reading habits. As a superior practitioner of the craft, Johnson provides a compelling model for how to read—indeed, he provides different models for different kinds of reading. DeMaria shows how Johnson recognized early that not all reading was alike—some requiring intense concentration, some suited for cursory glances, some requiring silence, some best appreciated amid the chatter of a coffeehouse. Considering the remarkable range of Johnson's reading, DeMaria discovers in one extraordinary career a synoptic view of the subject. "Enacts Johnson's celebrated variation on a theme from Horace—it does not merely delight and instruct, but rather instructs by delighting us . . . DeMaria proves himself a reader altogether worthy of his subject."—Times Literary Supplement "Fascinatingly perceptive both of Johnson's own reading habits and of their significance in the cultural history of reading."—Modern Language Review "Both a scholarly and an imaginative achievement, combining detailed detective work, abstract categorization, and sympathetic understanding. The finished product re-creates the detailed fabric of Johnson's reading career while locating it in a cultural landscape of rapid publication and growing literacy . . . Eminently readable, learned, and thoughtful."—Modern Philology "An intellectual history of the writer and his age."—Magill's Literary Annual "DeMaria presents an imaginative re-creation of Johnson's library and suggests how his reading habits offered a model for preventing the disappearance of the reader."—Biblio
Author | : John Hawkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1787 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Martin Riker |
Publisher | : Coffee House Press |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2018-10-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1566895367 |
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A Summer/Fall 2018 Indies Introduce Debut Fiction Selection When Samuel Johnson dies, he finds himself in the body of the man who killed him, unable to depart this world but determined, at least, to return to the son he left behind. Moving from body to body as each one expires, Samuel’s soul journeys on a comic quest through an American half-century, inhabiting lives as stymied, in their ways, as his own. A ghost story of the most unexpected sort, Martin Riker’s extraordinary debut is about the ways experience is mediated, the unstoppable drive for human connection, and the struggle to be more fully alive in the world. Martin Riker grew up in central Pennsylvania. He worked as a musician for most of his twenties, in nonprofit literary publishing for most of his thirties, and has spent the first half of his forties teaching in the English department at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2010, he and his wife Danielle Dutton co-founded the feminist press Dorothy, a Publishing Project. His fiction and criticism have appeared in publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, London Review of Books, the Baffler, and Conjunctions. This is his first novel.
Author | : James Boswell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1820 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Walter Jackson Bate |
Publisher | : Counterpoint LLC |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781887178761 |
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A biographical study of the eighteenth-century lexicographer and critic combines narrative with psychological insights
Author | : Jeffrey Meyers |
Publisher | : Oldcastle Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 543 |
Release | : 2015-11-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1904915507 |
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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 | : James Boswell |
Publisher | : Prabhat Prakashan |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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In making this abridgement of Boswell's Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell's criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson's opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of greater importance in Boswell's day than now. I have kept in mind an old habit, common enough, I dare say, among its devotees, of opening the book of random, and reading wherever the eye falls upon a passage of especial interest. All such passages, I hope, have been retained, and enough of the whole book to illustrate all the phases of Johnson's mind and of his time which Boswell observed.