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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... popular audience : Johnson shows his readers a way of interpreting Juvenal that displays his awareness of classical scholarship and his acute perception of Latin phraseology . Although he wrote it in English , Johnson was still proving ...
... popular audience : Johnson shows his readers a way of interpreting Juvenal that displays his awareness of classical scholarship and his acute perception of Latin phraseology . Although he wrote it in English , Johnson was still proving ...
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... popular and significant component of both the Tatler and Spectator , but , while some of the letters to these early period- icals were probably written by real readers , Johnson's were all wholly fictitious . The inclusion of the ...
... popular and significant component of both the Tatler and Spectator , but , while some of the letters to these early period- icals were probably written by real readers , Johnson's were all wholly fictitious . The inclusion of the ...
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... popular with the publication of works such as Antoine Galland's French trans- lation of the Arabian Nights - Les Mille et une nuits from 1704 to 1717 , and the translation by Ambrose Philips and others of the Persian Tales from French ...
... popular with the publication of works such as Antoine Galland's French trans- lation of the Arabian Nights - Les Mille et une nuits from 1704 to 1717 , and the translation by Ambrose Philips and others of the Persian Tales from French ...
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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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