The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography

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Wiley, Jan 9, 1995 - Literary Criticism - 392 pages
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In this major revision of The Life of Samuel Johnson, d Robert DeMaria makes a compelling claim for the attention of a new generation of Johnson's readers and admirers.

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The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography (Blackwell Critical Biographies)

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Although DeMaria (English, Vassar) borrows Boswell's title, he does not present a biography as much as an interpretive study of Johnson's works: all but three of the 21 chapter headings refer to ... Read full review

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Robert DeMaria is Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English at Vassar College, where he teaches Old English and the History of English as well as Eighteenth-century British Literature. In 1986 he published Johnson's Dictionary and the Language of Learning His British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology in the Blackwell Anthologies series is forthcoming.

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TitleThe Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography
Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
AuthorRobert DeMaria, Jr.
Editionillustrated, reprint, revised
PublisherWiley, 1995
ISBN1557866643, 9781557866646
Length392 pages
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Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  
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