Samuel JohnsonDespite his status as one of the founding fathers of modern English literature, few of Samuel Johnson's works are widely read today. This book suggests that his writings need to be appreciated in the context of contemporary debates over the role and status of literature within a rapidly expanding culture. |
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... derived from the Greek and Latin classics and embodying residual ideology in his beliefs about politics , religion , and morality . The other is of a bold innovator , eagerly embracing new ideas and the new print technology . This short ...
... derived from the Greek and Latin classics and embodying residual ideology in his beliefs about politics , religion , and morality . The other is of a bold innovator , eagerly embracing new ideas and the new print technology . This short ...
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Liz Bellamy. are largely derived from the works that they produced . Fielding is assimilated with the tolerant and genial narrator of Tom Jones and Sterne is identified with his comic creations , Tristram Shandy and Yorick . Yet with ...
Liz Bellamy. are largely derived from the works that they produced . Fielding is assimilated with the tolerant and genial narrator of Tom Jones and Sterne is identified with his comic creations , Tristram Shandy and Yorick . Yet with ...
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... derived from reading his works , ' which had grown up in my fancy into a kind of mysterious veneration ' ( Life , 272 ) . Thus , despite its chronological closeness to its subject , his Life is as much a work of interpretation and ...
... derived from reading his works , ' which had grown up in my fancy into a kind of mysterious veneration ' ( Life , 272 ) . Thus , despite its chronological closeness to its subject , his Life is as much a work of interpretation and ...
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London and The Vanity of Human Wishes | 1 |
The Rambler and the Idler | 25 |
The Dictionary | 39 |
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