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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... language and was thus ' a revelation of the metaphysics of print , its ability to abstract , order and idealize language ' ? The Dictionary has , therefore , been taken as a monument to the commercial and entrepreneurial nature of ...
... language and was thus ' a revelation of the metaphysics of print , its ability to abstract , order and idealize language ' ? The Dictionary has , therefore , been taken as a monument to the commercial and entrepreneurial nature of ...
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... language and settled the spelling , pronunciation , and definition of words , the dictionary compiler was an archivist , whose task was to catalogue the uses that he found and reflect rather than shape the language of the world . Alvin ...
... language and settled the spelling , pronunciation , and definition of words , the dictionary compiler was an archivist , whose task was to catalogue the uses that he found and reflect rather than shape the language of the world . Alvin ...
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... language , from a range of variant and shifting forms and dialects . The language that he ultimately chooses to include in the Dictionary is , simply , ' what favour- able accident or easy inquiry brought within my reach ' ( Greene ...
... language , from a range of variant and shifting forms and dialects . The language that he ultimately chooses to include in the Dictionary is , simply , ' what favour- able accident or easy inquiry brought within my reach ' ( Greene ...
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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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