The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography

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Wiley, Jan 9, 1995 - Literary Criticism - 392 pages
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.

About the author (1995)

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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