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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... experience , for that observation which is called knowledge of the world , will be found much more frequently to ... experiences that are contained in the novel . After a chastening series of events , they learn the error of their ways ...
... experience , for that observation which is called knowledge of the world , will be found much more frequently to ... experiences that are contained in the novel . After a chastening series of events , they learn the error of their ways ...
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... experience was perhaps a more lasting legacy , leading to the Bildungsroman , or apprenticeship novel , of the nineteenth century , which charted the development of a young mind towards maturity.10 Johnson's Rambler 4 is an articulate ...
... experience was perhaps a more lasting legacy , leading to the Bildungsroman , or apprenticeship novel , of the nineteenth century , which charted the development of a young mind towards maturity.10 Johnson's Rambler 4 is an articulate ...
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... experience of life . Johnson suggests that Shakespeare's plays are ' not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies , but compositions of a distinct kind ; exhibiting the real state of sublunary nature , which ...
... experience of life . Johnson suggests that Shakespeare's plays are ' not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies , but compositions of a distinct kind ; exhibiting the real state of sublunary nature , which ...
Contents
London and The Vanity of Human Wishes | 1 |
The Rambler and the Idler | 25 |
The Dictionary | 39 |
Copyright | |
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