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Johnson : the critical heritage.
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ISBN: 0710070306 Year: 1971

The life of Johnson.
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ISBN: 0140431160 9780140431162 Year: 1984 Publisher: Harmondsworth Penguin books

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Samuel Johnson
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ISBN: 1134782500 1280325062 0203197356 0415134358 0415756693 9780203197356 9781134782451 9781134782499 9781134782505 9780415134354 9780415756693 8132034325 Year: 1995 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.


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Samuel Johnson & the journey into words
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ISBN: 0199679908 0191760099 0191669504 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Popular readings of Johnson as a dictionary-maker often depict him as a writer who both laments - and attempts to control - the state of the language. This book looks at the range of Johnson's writings on, and the complexity of his thinking about, language and lexicography, not least with reference to the difficulties of power when exerted over the 'sea of words'. Paying close attention to Johnson's attitudes to language change, loanwords, usage, spelling, history, and authority, this volume engages with the evolution of his ideas about the nature, purpose, and methods of lexicography.


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Selected writings
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ISBN: 0674054075 9780674054073 0674035852 9780674035850 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

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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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The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
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ISBN: 1283253208 9786613253200 0820342882 9780820342887 9780820329956 0820329959 9781283253208 6613253200 0820344273 Year: 2009 Publisher: Athens, Ga. University of Georgia Press

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James Boswell's Life of Johnson : an edition of the original manuscript, in four volumes.
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ISBN: 0585378606 9780585378602 9780748628551 074862855X 0748604715 9780748604715 0300060602 9780300060607 0748606068 9780748606061 0300079699 9780300079692 9780748606047 0748606041 9780300182927 0300182929 9780748606054 074860605X 9780300243710 0300243715 Year: 2019 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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This volume is the final in the Yale Boswell Editions' manuscript edition of the Life of Johnson, a four-volume sequence designed to stand as a research supplement to the Hill-Powell version of the Life. The first volume, edited by Marshall Waingrow and covering the years 1709-1765, appeared in 1994, and the second, 1766-1776, edited by Bruce Redford with Elizabeth Goldring, in 1998. The third, 1776-1780, edited by Thomas F. Bonnell was published in 2012. This fourth volume traces Boswell's processes of composition from first draft to final publication. It restores much deleted material and passages lost or overlooked at proof and revision stage. It also corrects a host of errors-from compositorial to misreadings-that have stood in all editions of Boswell's biographical masterwork. Thomas Bonnell's annotation clarifies a range of textual issues, and sheds revealing light on Boswell's processes of selection and deletion.


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Johnson and Boswell : a biography of friendship
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ISBN: 0300189087 1283915286 9780300189087 9780300178753 0300178751 Year: 2012 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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In this book John Radner examines the fluctuating, close, and complex friendship enjoyed by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, from the day they met in 1763 to the day when Boswell published his monumental Life of Johnson. Drawing on everything Johnson and Boswell wrote to and about the other, this book charts the psychological currents that flowed between them as they scripted and directed their time together, questioned and advised, confided and held back. It explores the key longings and shifting tensions that distinguished this from each man's other long-term friendships, while it tracks in detail how Johnson and Boswell brought each other to life, challenged and confirmed each other, and used their deepening friendship to define and assess themselves. It tells a story that reaches through its specificity into the dynamics of most sustained friendships, with their breaks and reconnections, their silences and fresh intimacies, their continuities and transformations.

The religious life of Samuel Johnson
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ISBN: 1281783560 9786611783563 056756729X 9780567567291 9780485300109 0485300109 9781281783561 6611783563 Year: 1983 Publisher: London Athlone

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Samuel Johnson was a deeply religious man and he came to depend on his Christian faith as the principal means by which to endure the pain of existence. He sought throughout his life to render himself worthy of salvation, but the difficulties which he ecperienced in trying to maintain a high degree of reigious discipline - as well as his doubts about God's ultimate concern for man and his fears of his own spiritual unworthiness - led him in to periods of madness and a perpetual dread of damnation. Charles Pierce examines the effect of Johnson's religious concerns upon the formation of his compl


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Dr. Johnson's friend and Robert Adam's client Topham Beauclerk
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ISBN: 1443893250 9781443893251 9781443890373 1443890375 Year: 2016 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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Dr Johnson said that he would walk to the ends of the earth to save Beauclerk. Other people who claimed to be his friends rejoiced at his early death. How did the beautiful youth of Francis Coates' 1756 portrait become a man whose greatest claim to fame was causing an infestation of lice at Blenheim Palace through lack of personal hygiene? A great-grandson of Charles II and Nell Gwyn, he lived a privileged life thanks to fortuitously inherited wealth. He employed Robert Adam to build him a house at Muswell Hill which has almost completely disappeared from the records of Adam's work due to a di

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