Biography was Samuel Johnson’s favorite among literary genres, and his Lives of the Poets is often regarded as the capstone of his career. The central place of biography in his oeuvre is explored in this collection of nine original essays by leading Johnson scholars. Varied in their focus and approach, the essays range from a philosophical overview of Johnson’s notion of the relation between life and art, to a detailed reading of the Life of Milton, to a speculation on the value...
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Johnson’s Beginnings
Life, Art, and the Lives of the Poets
An Act of Complicated Virtue
Johnson’s Portraits of Charles XII of Sweden
Imlac who understood traffic...
Sobre el autor
David Wheeler is associate professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi.
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Idioma Inglés ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 200 ● ISBN 9780813159164 ● Tamaño de archivo 9.4 MB ● Editorial The University Press of Kentucky ● Ciudad Lexington ● País US ● Publicado 2014 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 5508713 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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