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Author : Greg Clingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521556252
This Companion, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and life of one of the key figures in English literary history.
Author : Greg Clingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108967112
Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find the New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson deeply informed and appealingly written. Each newly commissioned chapter explores aspects of Johnson's writing and thought, including his ethical grasp of life, his views of language, the roots of his ideas in Renaissance humanism, and his skeptical-humane style. Among the themes engaged are history, disability, gender, politics, race, slavery, Johnson's representation in art, and the significance of the Yale Edition. Works discussed include Johnson's poetry and fiction, his moral essays and political tracts, his Shakespeare edition and Dictionary, and his critical, biographical, and travel writing. A narrated Further Reading provides an informative guide to the study of Johnson, and a substantial Introduction highlights how his literary practice, philosophical values, and life experience provide a challenge to readers new and established. Through fresh, integrated insights, this authoritative guide reveals the surprising contemporaneity of Johnson's thought.
Author : Greg Clingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:821273532
The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson provides a unique introduction to the works and intellectual life of one of the most challenging and wide-ranging writers in English literary history. Compiler of the first great English dictionary, editor of Shakespeare, biographer and critic of the English poets, author both of the influential journal Rambler and the popular fiction Rasselas, and one of the most engaging conversationalists in literary culture, Johnson is here illuminatingly discussed from a different point of view. Essays on his main works are complemented by thematic discussion of his views on the experience of women in the eighteenth century, politics, imperialism, religion, and travel as well as by chapters covering his life, conversation, letters, and critical reception. Useful reference features include a chronology and guide to further reading. The keynote to the volume is the seamlessness of Johnson's life and writing, and the extraordinary humane intelligence he brought to all his activities. Accessibly written by a distinguished group of international scholars, this volume supplies a stimulating range of approaches, making Johnson newly relevant for our time.
Author : Greg Clingham,Philip Smallwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521888219
To mark the tercentenary of Samuel Johnson's birth in 2009, the specially-commissioned essays contained here review his scholarly reputation. An international team of experts reflects authoritatively on the various dimensions of literary, historical, critical and ethical life touched by Johnson's extraordinary achievement. The volume distinctively casts its net widely and combines consistently innovative thinking on Johnson's historical role with a fresh sense of present criticism. Chapters cover subjects as diverse as Johnson's moral philosophy, his legal thought, his influence on Jane Austen, and the question of the Johnson canon. The contributors examine the larger theoretical and scholarly contexts in which it is now possible to situate his work, and from which it may often be necessary to differentiate it. All the contributors have a distinguished record of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies, Johnson scholarship, and cultural history and theory.
Author : A. D. Cousins,Daniel Derrin,Dani Napton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000990317
This book is the first to assess Johnson’s diverse insights into friendship—that is to say, his profound as well as widely ranging appreciation of it—over the course of his long literary career. It examines his engagements with ancient philosophies of friendship and with subsequent reformulations of or departures from that diverse inheritance. The volume explores and illuminates Johnson’s understanding of friendship in the private and public spheres—in particular, friendship’s therapeutic amelioration of personal experience and transformative impact upon civil life. Doing so, it considers both his portrayals of interaction with his friends and his more overtly fictional representations of friendship across the many genres in which he wrote. It presents at once an original re-assessment of Johnson’s writings and new interpretations of friendship as an element of civility in mid-eighteenth-century British culture.
Author : Drummond Bone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521786762
Byron s life and work have fascinated readers around the world for two hundred years, but it is the complex interaction between his art and his politics, beliefs and sexuality that has attracted so many modern critics and students. In three sections devoted to the historical, textual and literary contexts of Byron s life and times, these specially commissioned essays by a range of eminent Byron scholars provide a compelling picture of the diversity of Byron s writings. The essays cover topics such as Byron s interest in the East, his relationship to the publishing world, his attitudes to gender, his use of Shakespeare and eighteenth-century literature, and his acute fit in a post-modernist world. This Companion provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars, including a chronology and a guide to further reading.
Author : Thomas Keymer,Jon Mee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521007577
This volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The wide scope of the collection, juxtaposing canonical authors with those now gaining new attention from scholars, makes it essential reading for students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism.
Author : Neil Lazarus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521534186
Offers a lucid introduction to postcolonial studies, one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies.
Author : Piero Boitani,Jill Mann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521894670
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Author : Peter Hulme,Tim Youngs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521786525
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Author : Andrew Feldherr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827690
No field of Latin literature has been more transformed over the last couple of decades than that of the Roman historians. Narratology, a new receptiveness to intertextuality, and a re-thinking of the relationship between literature and its political contexts have ensured that the works of historians such as Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus will be read as texts with the same interest and sophistication as they are used as sources. In this book, topics central to the entire tradition, such as conceptions of time, characterization, and depictions of politics and the gods, are treated synoptically, while other essays highlight the works of less familiar historians, such as Curtius Rufus and Ammianus Marcellinus. A final section focuses on the rich reception history of Roman historiography, from the ancient Greek historians of Rome to the twentieth century. An appendix offers a chronological list of the ancient historians of Rome.
Author : Claudia L. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521789524
A collected volume which addresses all aspects of Wollstonecraft's momentous and tragically brief career.
Author : Anthony W. Lee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611496796
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.
Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521797276
This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Edgar Allan Poe's work and life. Contributions provide a series of alternative perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and controversial American writers. The essays, specially tailored to the needs of undergraduates, examine all of Poe's major writings, his poetry, short stories and criticism, and place his work in a variety of literary, cultural and political contexts. They situate his imaginative writings in relation to different modes of writing: humor, Gothicism, anti-slavery tracts, science fiction, the detective story, and sentimental fiction. Three chapters examine specific works: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Raven', and 'Ulalume'. The volume features a detailed chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading, and will be of interest to students and scholars alike.
Author : Donna Tussing Orwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521520002
Best known for his great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy remains one the most important nineteenth-century writers; throughout his career which spanned nearly three quarters of a century, he wrote fiction, journalistic essays and educational textbooks. The specially commissioned essays in The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy do justice to the sheer volume of Tolstoy s writing. Key dimensions of his writing and life are explored in essays focusing on his relationship to popular writing, the issue of gender and sexuality in his fiction and his aesthetics. The introduction provides a brief, unified account of the man, for whom his art was only one activity among many. The volume is well supported by supplementary material including a detailed guide to further reading and a chronology of Tolstoy s life, the most comprehensive compiled in English to date. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.
