The Cambridge companion to Samuel Johnson /
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The Cambridge companion to Samuel Johnson /

This Companion provides a unique introduction and guide to the works and life of one of the most challenging and wide-ranging writers in English literary history. The compiler of the first great English dictionary, essayist, and one of the most engaging conversationalists in literary culture, Johnso...

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Corporate Author: Cambridge collections online
Other Authors: Clingham, Greg (Editor)
Format: Online Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
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Access:Online version
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Table of Contents:
  • Extraordinarily ordinary : the life of Samuel Johnson / Philip Davis
  • Johnson and the arts of conversation / Catherine N. Parke
  • Johnson's poetry / Howard D. Weinbrot
  • Johnson, the essay, and The rambler / Paul J. Korshin
  • Johnson and the condition of women / Eithne Henson
  • Johnson's Dictionary / Robert DeMaria, Jr.
  • Johnson's politics / Robert Folkenflik
  • Johnson and imperialism / Clement Hawes
  • The skepticism of Johnson's Rasselas / Fred Parker
  • Shakespeare : Johnson's poet of nature / Philip Smallwood
  • Life and literature in Johnson's Lives of the poets / Greg Clingham
  • Johnson's Christian thought / Michael F. Suarez
  • "From China to Peru" : Johnson in the traveled world / John Wiltshire
  • "Letters about nothing" : Johnson and epistolary writing / Tom Keymer
  • Johnson's critical reception / Steven Lynn.