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Johnson Samuel <1709-1784.> |
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Titolo |
Selected writings [[electronic resource] /] / Samuel Johnson ; edited by Peter Martin |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (532 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on the Text -- 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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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