Life Of Johnson Book I

Author : John A. Vance
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820333762

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Boswell's Life of Johnson by John A. Vance Pdf

When it first appeared in 1985, Boswell's Life of Johnson brought together the most recent and most lively assessments of the literary merit and historical accuracy of Boswell's biography. In an invigorating exchange placed at the center of the collection, Donald Greene's description of the Life as a fictionalized biography that screens the real, complex Johnson from view is challenged by Frederick Pottle's defense of Boswell's biographical method, of his sturdy compilation of detail that presents the factual rather than the fictional Johnson. Other essays explore the effect of Johnson's humor on the shaping of his image in the Life, the recent developments in literary criticism and the effect they have had on eighteenth-century studies, and the continuing interest of Boswell's Life as a showcase for members of Johnson's famous circle. The volume concludes with an assessment of the Boswellian problem--of the difficulties the Life presents to readers, scholars, and teachers.

Author : Boris Johnson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007418954

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Johnson’s Life of London: The People Who Made the City That Made the World by Boris Johnson Pdf

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Author : Steven Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780525538875

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Extra Life by Steven Johnson Pdf

“Offers a useful reminder of the role of modern science in fundamentally transforming all of our lives.” —President Barack Obama (on Twitter) “An important book.” —Steven Pinker, The New York Times Book Review The surprising and important story of how humans gained what amounts to an extra life, from the bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From In 1920, at the end of the last major pandemic, global life expectancy was just over forty years. Today, in many parts of the world, human beings can expect to live more than eighty years. As a species we have doubled our life expectancy in just one century. There are few measures of human progress more astonishing than this increased longevity. Extra Life is Steven Johnson’s attempt to understand where that progress came from, telling the epic story of one of humanity’s greatest achievements. How many of those extra years came from vaccines, or the decrease in famines, or seatbelts? What are the forces that now keep us alive longer? Behind each breakthrough lies an inspiring story of cooperative innovation, of brilliant thinkers bolstered by strong systems of public support and collaborative networks, and of dedicated activists fighting for meaningful reform. But for all its focus on positive change, this book is also a reminder that meaningful gaps in life expectancy still exist, and that new threats loom on the horizon, as the COVID-19 pandemic has made clear. How do we avoid decreases in life expectancy as our public health systems face unprecedented challenges? What current technologies or interventions that could reduce the impact of future crises are we somehow ignoring? A study in how meaningful change happens in society, Extra Life celebrates the enduring power of common goals and public resources, and the heroes of public health and medicine too often ignored in popular accounts of our history. This is the sweeping story of a revolution with immense public and personal consequences: the doubling of the human life span.

Author : Robert DeMaria Jr.,Robert DeMaria
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801854798

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Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading by Robert DeMaria Jr.,Robert DeMaria Pdf

In Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, Robert DeMaria considers the surprising influence of one of the greatest readers in English literature. Johnson's relationship to books not only reveals much about his life and times, DeMaria contends, but also provides a dramatic counterpoint to modern reading habits. As a superior practitioner of the craft, Johnson provides a compelling model for how to read—indeed, he provides different models for different kinds of reading. DeMaria shows how Johnson recognized early that not all reading was alike—some requiring intense concentration, some suited for cursory glances, some requiring silence, some best appreciated amid the chatter of a coffeehouse. Considering the remarkable range of Johnson's reading, DeMaria discovers in one extraordinary career a synoptic view of the subject. "Enacts Johnson's celebrated variation on a theme from Horace—it does not merely delight and instruct, but rather instructs by delighting us . . . DeMaria proves himself a reader altogether worthy of his subject."—Times Literary Supplement "Fascinatingly perceptive both of Johnson's own reading habits and of their significance in the cultural history of reading."—Modern Language Review "Both a scholarly and an imaginative achievement, combining detailed detective work, abstract categorization, and sympathetic understanding. The finished product re-creates the detailed fabric of Johnson's reading career while locating it in a cultural landscape of rapid publication and growing literacy . . . Eminently readable, learned, and thoughtful."—Modern Philology "An intellectual history of the writer and his age."—Magill's Literary Annual "DeMaria presents an imaginative re-creation of Johnson's library and suggests how his reading habits offered a model for preventing the disappearance of the reader."—Biblio

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086771888

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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell Pdf

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1799
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B900062755

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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell Pdf

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Hebrides (Scotland)
ISBN : CORNELL:31924012961672

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Life by James Boswell Pdf

Author : Richard B. Schwartz
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 0299094944

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Daily Life in Johnson's London by Richard B. Schwartz Pdf

"A rich, fascinating, enlightening if sometimes slightly terrifying tableau of real life in one of the world's most celebrated cities."--Los Angeles Times

Author : David Nokes
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780805086515

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Samuel Johnson by David Nokes Pdf

In this groundbreaking portrait of Samuel Johnson, Nokes positions the great thinker in his rightful place as an active force in the Enlightenment, not a mere recorder or performer, and demonstrates how his interaction with life impacted his work.

Author : Leo Damrosch
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300244960

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The Club by Leo Damrosch Pdf

Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk’s Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as “the Club.” In this captivating book, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters. With the friendship of the “odd couple” Samuel Johnson and James Boswell at the heart of his narrative, Damrosch conjures up the precarious, exciting, and often brutal world of late eighteenth-century Britain. This is the story of an extraordinary group of people whose ideas helped to shape their age, and our own.

Author : Franz Schulze
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226740584

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Philip Johnson by Franz Schulze Pdf

In this critically acclaimed biography, Franz Schulze probes the private and professional life of one of the most famous architects and architectural critics of the twentieth century. The only child of a wealthy Midwestern family, Philip Johnson was a millionaire by the time he graduated from Harvard, and in 1932 he helped stage the historic International Style exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. A patron of the arts and a political activists who flirted with the politics of Hitler, Huey Long, and Father Coughlin, he went on to create controversial and historical structures such as the Glass House, the Roofless Church, the AT & T Building, the Crystal Cathedral, and many more. Johnson's personal charms paired with his manipulative ploys—like his "borrowing" of designs—shine through in this biography. Drawing on Johnson's correspondence, personal photographs, and speeches, and on interviews with his friends and contemporaries, Schulze fills the biography with fascinating information on the architect's family, travels, friends and lovers, and his many buildings and spaces themselves. Franz Schulze is a professor of art at Lake Forest College. He is the author of Fantastic Images: Chicago Art since 1945, One Hundred Years of Chicago Architecture, and Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Life of Johnson, Book I by Anonim Pdf

Author : W. Jackson Bate
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781582435244

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Samuel Johnson by W. Jackson Bate Pdf

Samuel Johnson is a writer of such significance that his era — the second half of the 18th century — is known as the Age of Johnson. Starting out as a Grub Street journalist, he made his mark on history as a poet, author, moralist, literary critic, political commentator, and lexiconographer. We, as moderns, need to know this man, and W. Jackson Bate's formidable biography, with its uncanny depth and empathy, is the book that makes that happen. Professor W. Jackson Bate is a lyrical writer who deftly explains the effect Johnson has had on scholars, critics, and readers of all kinds through the past 200 years: "The reason Johnson has always fascinated so many people of different kinds," Bate writes, "is not simply that [he] is so vividly picturesque and quotable . . . The deeper secret of his hypnotic attraction, especially during our own generation, lies in the immense reassurance he gives to human nature." Bate delves deep into the character that formed Johnson's intellect and fueled his prodigious contribution to literature, religion, politics, and our understanding of the nature of humankind, revealing the fascinating nature — both odd and adored — of this literary luminary.

Author : Bruce Conforth,Gayle Wardlow
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781641600972

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Up Jumped the Devil by Bruce Conforth,Gayle Wardlow Pdf

Robert Johnson is the subject of the most famous myth about the blues: he allegedly sold his soul at the crossroads in exchange for his incredible talent, and this deal led to his death at age 27. But the actual story of his life remains unknown save for a few inaccurate anecdotes. Up Jumped the Devil is the result of over 50 years of research. Gayle Dean Wardlow has been interviewing people who knew Robert Johnson since the early 1960s, and he was the person who discovered Johnson's death certificate in 1967. Bruce Conforth began his study of Johnson's life and music in 1970 and made it his mission to fill in what was still unknown about him. In this definitive biography, the two authors relied on every interview, resource and document, most of it material no one has seen before. As a result, this book not only destroys every myth that ever surrounded Johnson, but also tells a human story of a real person. It is the first book about Johnson that documents his years in Memphis, details his trip to New York, uncovers where and when his wife Virginia died and the impact this had on him, fully portrays the other women Johnson was involved with, and tells exactly how and why he died and who gave him the poison that killed him. Up Jumped the Devil will astonish blues fans who thought they knew something about Johnson.

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001104876631

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The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell Pdf