04231nam 2200733 a 450 991095394810332120250312184021.097866132532009781283253208128325320897808203428870820342882(CKB)2550000000052221(OCoLC)759160200(CaPaEBR)ebrary10496063(SSID)ssj0000776346(PQKBManifestationID)12335880(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000776346(PQKBWorkID)10744983(PQKB)11368933(SSID)ssj0000538564(PQKBManifestationID)11324410(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538564(PQKBWorkID)10559126(PQKB)11519958(MdBmJHUP)muse17852(Au-PeEL)EBL3039044(CaPaEBR)ebr10496063(CaONFJC)MIL325320(MiAaPQ)EBC3039044(Perlego)839605(EXLCZ)99255000000005222120080825d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D /by Sir John Hawkins ; edited by O M Brack, Jr1st ed.Athens, Ga. University of Georgia Pressc20091 online resource (591 p.)Originally published by J. Buckland, London, 1787.9780820344270 0820344273 9780820329956 0820329959 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations and Short Titles -- Introduction -- The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. -- Notes to the Text -- Textual Commentary -- List of Emendations -- Word-Division -- Historical Collation -- List of Cancellations in the 1787 First Edition -- Preliminaries to Volume I of The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787) -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.This is the first and only scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., a work that has not been widely available in complete form for more than two hundred years. Published in 1787, some four years before James Boswell's biography of Johnson, Hawkins's Life complements, clarifies, and often corrects numerous aspects of Boswell's Life. Samuel Johnson (1709-84) is the most significant English writer of the second half of the eighteenth century; indeed, this period is widely known as the Age of Johnson. Hawkins was Johnson's friend and legal adviser and the chief executor of his will. He knew Johnson longer and in many respects better than other biographers, including Boswell, who made unacknowledged use of Hawkins's Life and helped orchestrate the critical attacks that consigned the book to obscurity. Sir John Hawkins had special insight into Johnson's mental states at various points in his life, his early days in London, his association with the Gentleman's Magazine, and his political views and writings. Hawkins's use of historical and cultural details, an uncommon literary device at the time, produced one of the earliest "life and times" biographies in our language. The Introduction by O M Brack, Jr., covers the history of the composition, publication, and reception of the Life and provides a context in which it should be read. Annotations address historical, literary, and linguistic uncertainties, and a full textual apparatus documents how Brack arrived at this definitive text of Hawkins's Life.Authors, English18th centuryBiographyLexicographersGreat BritainBiographyAuthors, EnglishLexicographers828/.609Hawkins John1719-17891134439Brack O MJr.,1938-20121658050MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910953948103321The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D4329341UNINA