Author: Paul J. Korshin
Publisher:
ISBN: 0404627676
Category: Poetry
Page: 481
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The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson
Labels fit him poorly. In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, an international team of thirty-six scholars offers the most comprehensive examination ever attempted of one of the most complex figures in English literature.
Author: Jack Lynch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192513601
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 705
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No major author worked in more genres than Samuel Johnson—essays, poetry, fiction, criticism, biography, scholarly editing, lexicography, translation, sermons, journalism. His works are more extensive than those of any other canonical English writer, and no earlier writer's life was documented as thoroughly by contemporaries. Because it's so difficult to know him thoroughly, people have made do with surrogates and simplifications. But Johnson was much more complicated than the popular image of 'Dr. Johnson' suggests: socially conservative but also one of the most radical abolitionists of his age, a firm believer in social hierarchy but an outspoken supporter of women intellectuals, an uncompromising Christian moralist but also a penetrating critic of family structures. Labels fit him poorly. In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, an international team of thirty-six scholars offers the most comprehensive examination ever attempted of one of the most complex figures in English literature. The book's first section examines Johnson's life and the texts of his works; the second, organized by genre, explores all his major works and many of his minor ones; the third, organized by topic, covers the subjects that were most important to him as a writer, as a thinker, and as a moralist.Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson
Prayers and Meditations,” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 14 (2003): 77–97; and J.D. Fleeman, “Some Notes on Johnson's Prayers and Meditations,” The Review of English Studies 19 (May 1968): 172–79. 7.
Author: Melvyn New
Publisher: University of Delaware
ISBN: 9781611494013
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 374
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Seventeen essays explore the complex relationships between literary intentions and theological concerns of authors writing in the second half of the eighteenth century. The diversity of literary forms and subjects, from Fielding and Richardson to Burke and Wollstonecraft, is matched by a diversity of theologies; to argue that the age “resisted secularism” is by no means to argue that that resistance was blindly doctrinal or rigidly uniform; the many ways secularism could be resisted is the subject of the collectionSamuel Johnson the Ossian Fraud and the Celtic Revival in Great Britain and Ireland
The Age of johnson: A Scholarly Annual 6 (1994): 31-73. “Johnson and the Geographical Revolution.” Studies in Burke and His Time 17 (1976): 180-98. “Johnson and the Irish: A Postcolonial Survey of the Irish Literary Renaissance in ...
Author: Thomas M. Curley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521407472
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 349
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A detailed investigation of Johnson's response to the Ossian controversy, with a transcription of a rare anti-Ossian pamphlet he co-authored.The Age of Johnson
A Scholarly Annual (Volume 24) Jack Lynch, J. T. Scanlan. [New York: Harper, 1835], 5:362). Clearly, the Blues' perspective on Shakespeare criticism was pro- Shakespeare, since that was Montagu's take, though Eger points out that Lennox ...
Author: Jack Lynch
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9781684483013
Category: History
Page: 239
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Volume 24 features commentary on a range of Johnsonian topics: his reaction to Milton, his relation to the Allen family, his notes in his edition of Shakespeare, his use of Oliver Goldsmith in his Dictionary, and his always fascinating Nachleben. The volume also includes articles on topics of strong interest to Johnson: penal reform, Charlotte Lennox's professional literary career, and the "conjectural history" of Homer in the eighteenth century.Reference Works in British and American Literature
The Age of Johnson : A Scholarly Annual . New York : AMS Press , 1987- . Annual . ISSN 0884-5816 . Age of Johnson publishes substantial features on " all aspects of the literature , history , and culture of the period of Samuel ...
Author: James K. Bracken
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
ISBN: 1563085186
Category: American literature
Page: 784
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Designed to serve the basic needs of literary researchers of all degrees of sophistication, this book updates and expands on the author's previous work by the same title. Focusing on the most important and useful resources for modern researchers and students of English literature, Bracken identifies and describes a substantial portion of the currently available reference sources in British and American literature-dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, periodicals, and so forth-with more than 1,500 resources on individual writers. Descriptive annotations offer thorough and detailed assessments of the works, noting specific features and often comparing them to similar titles. Numerous cross-references are given. A valuable research tool for students and scholars, this text will also be useful to bibliographic instructors and collection development specialists.The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson
Scholars , editors , historians , religious thinkers , linguists , and literary critics all defined themselves in relation to " the last age ... He is co - editor , with Paul J. Korshin , of The Age of Johnson : A Scholarly Annual .
Author: Jack Lynch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521819075
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 244
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In The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, Jack Lynch explores eighteenth-century British conceptions of the Renaissance, and the historical, intellectual, and cultural uses to which the past was put during the period. Scholars, editors, historians, religious thinkers, linguists, and literary critics of the period all defined themselves in relation to 'the last age' or 'the age of Elizabeth'. This interdisciplinary study will be of interest to cultural as well as literary historians of the eighteenth century.New Essays on Samuel Johnson
“'That Great Literary Projector': Samuel Johnson's Designs, or Projected Works.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 13 (2002): 103–80. ———. “The 'Great Cham' and the 'English Aristophanes': Samuel Johnson, Samuel Foote, ...
Author: Anthony W. Lee
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781611496796
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 282
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New Essays on Samuel Johnson is a collection of the best thinking and writing currently available on the great English writer Samuel Johnson. It presents a primer of criticism that revaluates him within our current cultural moment while also serving as a parliament of explorations that offers a point of departure for future critical inquiry.The Reformist Ideas of Samuel Johnson
Chapin, C. 'Religion and the Nature of Samuel Johnson's Toryism', Cithara: Essays in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition, Vol. 29, No. ... Clark, JC D. 'The Politics of Samuel Johnson', The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, No.
Author: Stefka Ritchie
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 9781443879125
Category: History
Page: 315
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This book explores what remains an under-studied aspect of Samuel Johnson’s profile as a person and writer – namely, his attitude to social improvement. The interpretive framework provided here is cross-disciplinary, and applies perspectives from social and cultural history, legal history, architectural history and, of course, English literature. This allows Johnson’s writings to be read against the peculiarities of their historical milieu, and reveals Johnson in a new light – as an advocate of social improvement for human betterment. Considering the multiplicity of narrative modes that have been employed, the book points to the blurred boundaries and overlapping between history, testimony and fiction, and argues that a future biography of Samuel Johnson has to recognise that throughout his life he valued the utilitarian aspect of his manifesto as a writer to impart a more charitable attitude in the pursuit of a more caring society.The World in Thirty Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson s Guide to Life
(Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1988) Paul Tankard, 'A Petty Writer: Johnson and the Rambler Pamphlets', The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 10 (1999), 67–87 ______, '“That Great Literary Projector”: Samuel Johnson's ...
Author: Henry Hitchings
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781509841936
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 320
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'Hitchings is extremely good at unravelling Johnson’s most bullish assertions . . . lucid and empathetic, scholarly but lively. A model Johnsonian, in fact.' The Times The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life is a source of profound good sense about what it means to teach, read, write and travel. More than that, though, Henry Hitchings continually translates Samuel Johnson's experience of poverty, scorn, pain and madness into a rich understanding of how to be. Samuel Johnson was a critic, an essayist, a poet and a biographer. He was also, famously, the compiler of the first good English dictionary, published in 1755. A polymath and a great conversationalist, his intellectual and social curiosity were boundless. Yet he was a deeply melancholy man, haunted by dark thoughts, sickness and a diseased imagination. In his own life, both public and private, he sought to choose a virtuous and prudent path, negotiating everyday hazards and temptations. His writings and aphorisms illuminate what it means to lead a life of integrity, and his experience, abundantly documented by him and by others (such as James Boswell and Hester Thrale), is a lesson in the art of regulating the mind and the body. Johnson’s story touches on many themes that have enduring significance. He was, and remains, a perceptive commentator on the vanity of human wishes, the rewards and dangers of charity, the need to cultivate kindness, the complexities of family life (especially marriage), the effects of boredom and the fleeting nature of pleasure. He writes and speaks incisively and humanely about the ego, ambition, hypocrisy, fallibility and disorders of the mind, as well as the corrosive effects of obsession, the precariousness of fame and the skulduggery of the literary world.