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Johnson, Samuel --- -Criticism and interpretation --- Johnson, Samuel, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Jonsan, Śāmuʼél, --- Author of the Rambler, --- Rambler, Author of the, --- Gʹonson, Samyuʼel, --- صمويل جونسون
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Johnson, Samuel, --- Jonsan, Śāmuʼél, --- Author of the Rambler, --- Rambler, Author of the, --- Gʹonson, Samyuʼel, --- صمويل جونسون --- Johnson, Samuel, - 1709-1784
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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.
English literature --- Johnson, Samuel, --- Jonsan, Śāmuʼél, --- Author of the Rambler, --- Rambler, Author of the, --- Gʹonson, Samyuʼel, --- صمويل جونسون
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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.
Language and languages in literature. --- Johnson, Samuel, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Jonsan, Śāmuʼél, --- Author of the Rambler, --- Rambler, Author of the, --- Gʹonson, Samyuʼel, --- صمويل جونسون
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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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Lexicographers --- Authors, English --- Johnson, Samuel, --- Jonsan, Śāmuʼél, --- Author of the Rambler, --- Rambler, Author of the, --- Gʹonson, Samyuʼel, --- صمويل جونسون
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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.
Authors, English --- Lexicographers --- Critics --- Johnson, Samuel, --- Jonsan, Śāmuʼél, --- Author of the Rambler, --- Rambler, Author of the, --- Gʹonson, Samyuʼel, --- صمويل جونسون
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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.
Authors, English --- Authors, American --- Johnson, Samuel, --- Boswell, James, --- Jonsan, Śāmuʼél, --- Author of the Rambler, --- Rambler, Author of the, --- Gʹonson, Samyuʼel, --- صمويل جونسون --- Friends and associates.
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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
Authors, English --- Religious life. --- Johnson, Samuel, --- Jonsan, Śāmuʼél, --- Author of the Rambler, --- Rambler, Author of the, --- Gʹonson, Samyuʼel, --- صمويل جونسون --- Religion.
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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
Johnson, Samuel, --- Jonsan, Śāmuʼél, --- Author of the Rambler, --- Rambler, Author of the, --- Gʹonson, Samyuʼel, --- صمويل جونسون --- Friends and associates.
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