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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... identified with his comic creations , Tristram Shandy and Yorick . Yet with Johnson it is the other way round . We see the works in the light of our knowledge of the author and we impose our image of him upon them . This book will ...
... identified with his comic creations , Tristram Shandy and Yorick . Yet with Johnson it is the other way round . We see the works in the light of our knowledge of the author and we impose our image of him upon them . This book will ...
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... identified as ultimately backward - looking , Johnson alone chose to be open- ly a modern'.1 More recently , John ... identification of Johnson as a reactionary Tory , and highlighted the radicalism of his early works in particular.2 ...
... identified as ultimately backward - looking , Johnson alone chose to be open- ly a modern'.1 More recently , John ... identification of Johnson as a reactionary Tory , and highlighted the radicalism of his early works in particular.2 ...
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... identification with the novel , the form that has been identified as characteristic of the developing commercial society . For Johnson , recognition of the economic potential of the expanding readership and new technological develop ...
... identification with the novel , the form that has been identified as characteristic of the developing commercial society . For Johnson , recognition of the economic potential of the expanding readership and new technological develop ...
Contents
London and The Vanity of Human Wishes | 1 |
The Rambler and the Idler | 25 |
The Dictionary | 39 |
Copyright | |
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