The Reformist Ideas Of Samuel Johnson

Author : Stefka Ritchie
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443879125

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The Reformist Ideas of Samuel Johnson by Stefka Ritchie Pdf

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.

Author : Stefka Ritchie
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527521094

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Samuel Johnson’s Pragmatism and Imagination by Stefka Ritchie Pdf

The central theme of this book is an under-studied link between the canon of Francis Bacon’s and Isaac Newton’s scientific and philosophical thought and Samuel Johnson’s critical approach that can be traced in a textual study of his literary works. The interpretive framework adopted here encourages familiarity with the history and philosophy of science, confirming that the history of ideas is an entirely human construct that constitutes an integral part of intellectual history. This further endorses the argument that intermediality can only be of benefit to future research into the richness of Johnson’s literary style. As perceived boundaries are crossed between conventionally distinct communication media, the profile of Johnson that emerges is of a writer of passionate intelligence who was able to combine a pragmatic approach to knowledge with flights of imagination as a true artist.

Author : Simone Broders
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110722048

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The Age of Curiosity by Simone Broders Pdf

Challenging the ‘success story’ of curiosity from original sin to intellectual virtue, this study uses an innovative methodological approach to the history of ideas as a non-teleological neural network based on current research in information technology and neurophysiology. The network offers a dynamic alternative to the ‘development’ of curiosity within the progress-oriented mythology of the Enlightenment, emphasizing the oscillation and interaction of ideas within the processes of their construction, as well as exposing the power relations behind them. The text corpus focuses on enactments of curiosity in English literature of the 'Long' Eighteenth Century (c. 1680-1818), such as transgression of boundaries, breach of taboo, gendered curiosity, sensationalism, or academic endeavour, bringing together a variety of examples from all major genres. The Age of Curiosity contributes to current debates on a post-Foucauldian renewal of Lovejoy’s history of ideas in Enlightenment studies, exploring both curiosity as an indispensable trait for the search of answers to the fundamental yet unresolved questions of ‘identity’ or ‘truth’, and its potential as cura, the care for others and the world.

Author : Robert G. Ingram
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843833484

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Religion, Reform and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century by Robert G. Ingram Pdf

A new interpretation of English history and religion in the eighteenth century. The eighteenth century has long divided critical opinion. Some contend that it witnessed the birth of the modern world, while others counter that England remained an ancien regime confessional state. This book takes issue with both positions, arguing that the former overstate the newness of the age and largely misdiagnose the causes of change, while the latter rightly point to the persistence of more traditional modes of thought and behaviour, but downplay the era's fundamental uncertainty and misplace the reasons for and the timeline of its passage. The overwhelming catalyst for change is here seen to be war, rather than long-term social and economic changes. Archbishop Thomas Secker [1693-1768], the Cranmer or Laud of his age, and the hitherto neglected church reforms he spearheaded, form the particular focus of the book; this is the first full archivally-based study of a crucial but frequently ignored figure. ROBERT G. INGRAM is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Ohio University.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : English literature
ISBN : PSU:000006734008

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The Works of Samuel Johnson: Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of eminent persons by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015074639447

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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of eminent persons by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Donald Johnson Greene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Politics and literature
ISBN : UVA:X000124473

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The Politics of Samuel Johnson by Donald Johnson Greene Pdf

Author : Anna Tomaszewska
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004523371

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Between Secularization and Reform by Anna Tomaszewska Pdf

The authors revisit the idea that Enlightenment spearheaded secularization. This book invites all to look at the Enlightenment religiosity as founded on a merger of religious criticism and heterodoxy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UFL:35051117771156

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Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UIUC:30112033766079

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The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Spadafora,James Spada
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300046715

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The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth-century Britain by David Spadafora,James Spada Pdf

The idea of progress stood at the very center of the intellectual world of eighteenth-century Britain, closely linked to every major facet of the British Enlightenment as well as to the economic revolutions of the period. Drawing on hundreds of eighteenth-century books and pamphlets, David Spadafora here provides the most extensive discussion ever written of this prevailing sense of historical optimism.

Author : Phil Jones
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781835536568

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Reading Samuel Johnson by Phil Jones Pdf

This book examines how Samuel Johnson was assimilated by later writers, ranging from James Boswell to Samuel Beckett. It is as much about these writers as Johnson himself, showing how they found their own space, in part, through their response to Johnson, which helped shape their writing and view of contemporary literature.

Author : Nicholas Hudson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317323433

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A Political Biography of Samuel Johnson by Nicholas Hudson Pdf

Johnson rose from obscure origins to become a major literary figure of the eighteenth century. Through a detailed survey of his major works and political journalism, Hudson constructs a complex picture of Johnson as a moralist forced to accept the realistic nature of politics during an era of revolutionary transition.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0300015933

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Political Writings by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Jack Lynch,J. T. Scanlan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684483020

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The Age of Johnson by Jack Lynch,J. T. Scanlan Pdf

The move to a new publisher has given The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual the opportunity to recommit to what it does best: present to a wide readership cant-free scholarly articles and essays and searching book reviews, all featuring a wide variety of approaches, written by both seasoned scholars and relative newcomers. 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. For more than two decades, The Age of Johnson has presented a vast corpus of Johnsonian studies "in the broadest sense," as founding editor Paul J. Korshin put it in the preface to Volume 1, and it has retained the interest of a wide readership. In thousands of pages of articles, review essays, and reviews, The Age of Johnson has made a permanent contribution to our understanding of the eighteenth century, and particularly of Samuel Johnson, his circle, and his interests, and has also served as an outlet for writers who are not academics but have something important to say about the eighteenth century. ISSN 0884-5816.