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Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find the New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson deeply informed and appealingly written. Each newly commissioned chapter explores aspects of Johnson's writing and thought, including his ethical grasp of life, his views of language, the roots of his ideas in Renaissance humanism, and his skeptical-humane style. Among the themes engaged are history, disability, gender, politics, race, slavery...

Invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers, this new Companion is deeply informed and appealingly written, offering fresh insight into Johnson's engagement with eighteenth-century literature, society, politics, and culture and revealing the surprising contemporaneity of his thinking about social justice, slavery, gender, and disability.

New Essays on Samuel Johnson is a collection of the best thinking and writing currently available on the great English writer Samuel Johnson. It presents a primer of criticism that revaluates him within our current cultural moment while also serving as a parliament of explorations that offers a point of departure for future critical inquiry.

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This is a radical introduction to the Life of Johnson.

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To mark the tercentenary of Samuel Johnson's birth in 2009, the specially-commissioned essays in this volume review his scholarly reputation.

Examines Johnson's writing in relation to eighteenth-century thought on literature, history, fiction and law.

Examines Johnson's writing in relation to eighteenth-century thought on literature, history, fiction and law.

This book looks at Dryden's literary relationships and implications for questions of literary reception, influence and intertextuality, as well as for the reputation and context of Dryden himself.

A collection of new essays, commemorating the bicentenary of Boswell's Life of Johnson.

Sustaining Literature is a collection of scholarly essays by leading scholars on texts, writers, and cultural interests that represent the interests of the late scholar of the Renaissance and the eighteenth-century, Simon Varey. Many of the essays examine questions of textual, historical, and cultural evidence in the study of eighteenth-century literature. They address such writers as Dryden, Swift, Defoe, Fielding, and Haywood, and such issue...

This is a radical introduction to the Life of Johnson.

This COMPANION provides a unique introduction and guide to the works and life of one of the key figures in English literary history. One of the most distinctive characters and conversationalists in our literary culture, Samuel Johnson is here surveyed in his entirety. Chapters covering major works, his life, conversation, letters, and critical reception appear alongside fresh thematic essays, a chronology and a guide to further reading. 10 pho...

To mark the tercentenary of Samuel Johnson's birth, specially-commissioned essays review his scholarly reputation today.

A collection of essays first published in 1991 to commemorate the bicentenary of Boswell's Life of Johnson.