02942nam 2200601 450 991081350400332120200520144314.00-8131-5916-4(CKB)3710000000334017(EBL)1915161(SSID)ssj0001401823(PQKBManifestationID)12607360(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001401823(PQKBWorkID)11358079(PQKB)11702812(OCoLC)568759765(MdBmJHUP)muse44040(Au-PeEL)EBL1915161(CaPaEBR)ebr11007531(CaONFJC)MIL690991(OCoLC)900344527(MiAaPQ)EBC1915161(EXLCZ)99371000000033401720150128h19871987 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDomestick privacies Samuel Johnson and the art of biography /edited by David Wheeler ; contributors, James L. Battersby [and seven others]Lexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,1987.©19871 online resource (204 p.)Includes index.1-322-59709-X 0-8131-1612-0 Bibliography: p. [167]-184.Introduction, the uses of Johnson's biographies / David Wheeler -- Johnson's beginnings / Lawrence Lipking -- Life, art, and the Lives of the poets / James L. Battersby -- Dr. Johnson's solemn response to beneficence / John A. Dussinger -- Johnson's portraits of Charles XII of Sweden / James Gray -- Johnson, Imlac, and biographical thinking / Catherine N. Parke -- The contexts and motives of Johnson's Life of Milton / Stephen Fix -- Johnson's Lives and modern students / William R. Siebenschuh -- Johnson and biography / Michael Stuprich.Biography was Samuel Johnson's favorite among literary genres, and his Lives of the Poets is often regarded as the capstone of his career. The central place of biography in his oeuvre is explored in this collection of nine original essays by leading Johnson scholars. Varied in their focus and approach, the essays range from a philosophical overview of Johnson's notion of the relation between life and art, to a detailed reading of the Life of Milton, to a speculation on the value of the Lives in the classroom.Emerging clearly in the essays are the dual concerns -- artistic and intellectual -Biography as a literary formPoets, EnglishBiographyHistory and criticismBiography as a literary form.Poets, EnglishHistory and criticism.828/.609Wheeler David1950-Battersby James L.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813504003321Domestick privacies4082895UNINA