LEADER 04231nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910953948103321 005 20250312184021.0 010 $a9786613253200 010 $a9781283253208 010 $a1283253208 010 $a9780820342887 010 $a0820342882 035 $a(CKB)2550000000052221 035 $a(OCoLC)759160200 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10496063 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000776346 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12335880 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000776346 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10744983 035 $a(PQKB)11368933 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000538564 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11324410 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538564 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10559126 035 $a(PQKB)11519958 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17852 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3039044 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10496063 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL325320 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3039044 035 $a(Perlego)839605 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000052221 100 $a20080825d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D /$fby Sir John Hawkins ; edited by O M Brack, Jr 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAthens, Ga. $cUniversity of Georgia Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (591 p.) 300 $aOriginally published by J. Buckland, London, 1787. 311 08$a9780820344270 311 08$a0820344273 311 08$a9780820329956 311 08$a0820329959 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover -- 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. 330 8 $aThis 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. 606 $aAuthors, English$y18th century$vBiography 606 $aLexicographers$zGreat Britain$vBiography 615 0$aAuthors, English 615 0$aLexicographers 676 $a828/.609 700 $aHawkins$b John$f1719-1789$01134439 701 $aBrack$b O M$cJr.,$f1938-2012$01658050 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953948103321 996 $aThe life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D$94329341 997 $aUNINA