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Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600046199
Author : David Nokes
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780805086515
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 : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086771888
Author : John A. Vance
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820333762
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 : Robert DeMaria Jr.,Robert DeMaria
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801854798
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 : John Hawkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1787
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : OXFORD:400311898
Author : W. Jackson Bate
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781582435244
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 : James Boswell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781627932813
In Boswell's "Life of Samuel Johnson", one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality. While Johnson's Dictionary remains a monument of scholarship, and his essays and criticism command continuing respect, we owe our knowledge of the man himself to this biography. Through a series of wonderfully detailed anecdotes, Johnson emerges as a sociable figure with a huge appetite for life, crossing swords with other great eighteenth-century luminaries, from Garrick and Goldsmith to Burney and Burke - even his long-suffering friend and disciple James Boswell.Yet Johnson had a vulnerable, even tragic, side and anxieties and obsessions haunted his private hours. Boswell's sensitivity and insight into every facet of his subject's character ultimately make this biography as moving as it is entertaining. Based on the 1799 edition, Christopher Hibbert's abridgement preserves the integrity of the original, while his fascinating introduction sets Boswell's view of Samuel Johnson against that of others of the time.
Author : Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Readers
ISBN : HARVARD:32044097059174
Author : James Boswell
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Originally published in 1791, this biography of English writer, Samuel Johnson, has been described as the greatest biography ever written. Differing from others in that era, it contained not just a record of Johnson's public life, but instead painted a vivid portrait of him, and included extensive reports of Johnson's conversation. This edition is an abridged version edited by Charles Grosvenor Osgood.Note: there were no chapters in the main body of the text, so I added some arbitrary ones to break the text up a little bit.
Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1799
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B900062755
Author : Martin Riker
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781566895361
A Summer/Fall 2018 Indies Introduce Debut Fiction Selection When Samuel Johnson dies, he finds himself in the body of the man who killed him, unable to depart this world but determined, at least, to return to the son he left behind. Moving from body to body as each one expires, Samuel’s soul journeys on a comic quest through an American half-century, inhabiting lives as stymied, in their ways, as his own. A ghost story of the most unexpected sort, Martin Riker’s extraordinary debut is about the ways experience is mediated, the unstoppable drive for human connection, and the struggle to be more fully alive in the world. Martin Riker grew up in central Pennsylvania. He worked as a musician for most of his twenties, in nonprofit literary publishing for most of his thirties, and has spent the first half of his forties teaching in the English department at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2010, he and his wife Danielle Dutton co-founded the feminist press Dorothy, a Publishing Project. His fiction and criticism have appeared in publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, London Review of Books, the Baffler, and Conjunctions. This is his first novel.
Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:221121449
Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : HARVARD:HWJRD6
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Digireads.Com
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1420950630
As a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer, Samuel Johnson's contributions to English literature cannot be understated. His single greatest achievement is widely considered to be his "Dictionary of the English Language," which after nine years of research was first published in 1755. Until the publication of the "Oxford English Dictionary" over a century and a half later it was widely considered to be the preeminent dictionary of the English language. The work brought him much fame and success and had a profound impact on modern English literature. Johnson's contributions to the periodicals "The Rambler" and "The Idler" are considered to be some of the greatest examples of literary criticism of all time. This collection includes some of the best examples of his essays from those periodicals as well as a representative selection of his poetry, prose as well as his famous allegorical novel "The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia." Readers of this volume will most assuredly agree that Johnson was a writer of immense talent whose genius is exhibited by the sheer breadth of his body of work.