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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... friends , they were written by Johnson alone.1 In this enterprise he followed in the steps of Richard Steele and Joseph Addison . In the early years of the century , the Tatler and Spectator , produced by Addison , Steele , and a group ...
... friends , they were written by Johnson alone.1 In this enterprise he followed in the steps of Richard Steele and Joseph Addison . In the early years of the century , the Tatler and Spectator , produced by Addison , Steele , and a group ...
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... friends and acquiring the social arts of conversa- tion and conviviality . He ' came early and departed late ' and ' laboured to recommend himself by assiduity and compliance ' , so that , when the prince and his sister finally consult ...
... friends and acquiring the social arts of conversa- tion and conviviality . He ' came early and departed late ' and ' laboured to recommend himself by assiduity and compliance ' , so that , when the prince and his sister finally consult ...
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... friends in Oxford or Lichfield . He had famously defended his lack of experience of the wider world on the grounds that ' there is in London all that Life can afford ' ( Life , 859 ) . The Scottish tour heralded a new , more adventurous ...
... friends in Oxford or Lichfield . He had famously defended his lack of experience of the wider world on the grounds that ' there is in London all that Life can afford ' ( Life , 859 ) . The Scottish tour heralded a new , more adventurous ...
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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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