Samuel Johnson : Selected Writings: A Tercentenary Celebration / Samuel Johnson; ed. by Peter Martin.
Johnson, Samuel, author.; Martin, Peter, editor.
2011
PR3522
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Title
Samuel Johnson : Selected Writings: A Tercentenary Celebration / Samuel Johnson; ed. by Peter Martin.
Author
Johnson, Samuel, author.
ISBN
9780674054073
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054073
Published
Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (536 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674054073 doi
Call Number
PR3522
Dewey Decimal Classification
828/.609
Summary
Thanks to Boswell's monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, we remember Dr. Johnson today as a great wit and conversationalist, the rationalist epitome and the sage of the Enlightenment. But in Johnson's own day, he was best known as an essayist, critic, and lexicographer. At the center of this collection are the periodical essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler. Together, these works - allied in their literary, social, and moral concerns - are the ones that continue to speak urgently to readers today.
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Martin, Peter, editor.
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Frontmatter
Contents
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Introduction
Part 1. Periodical Essays (1750-1760)
Morality, Behavior, and Psychology
Society and Manners
Biography and Autobiography
Literature and Authorship
Death
Politics
Part II. Excerpts from the Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
Part III. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759)
Part IV. Preface to The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765)
Part V. Excerpts from Lives of the Poets
Cowley
Milton
Pope
Collins
Savage
Notes
Bibliography

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