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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Liz Bellamy. fictional correspondents , Johnson could explore different char- acters , and , to some extent , different ... explore questions of marriage and sexuality that were becom- ing the subject matter of the emergent genre of the ...
Liz Bellamy. fictional correspondents , Johnson could explore different char- acters , and , to some extent , different ... explore questions of marriage and sexuality that were becom- ing the subject matter of the emergent genre of the ...
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... explore areas of feminine concern . Samuel Richardson had popular- ized the ' novel in letters ' , or epistolary narrative , with the publication of Pamela ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ) , so that letters were becoming closely ...
... explore areas of feminine concern . Samuel Richardson had popular- ized the ' novel in letters ' , or epistolary narrative , with the publication of Pamela ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ) , so that letters were becoming closely ...
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... explore the moral , philosophical , and ideological uncertain- ties of one's own . A version of this technique was exploited by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels , which used the fictional lands of Lilliput , Brobdingnag , Laputa ...
... explore the moral , philosophical , and ideological uncertain- ties of one's own . A version of this technique was exploited by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels , which used the fictional lands of Lilliput , Brobdingnag , Laputa ...
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London and The Vanity of Human Wishes | 1 |
The Rambler and the Idler | 25 |
The Dictionary | 39 |
Copyright | |
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