Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

Name: Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson
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ISBN: 9780521556255

ISBN-10: 0521556252

ISBN-13: 9780521556255

Edition: 1997

Authors: Greg Clingham

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This Companion provides a unique introduction and guide to the works and life of one of the key figures in English literary history. The source of endless familiar aphorisms, the compiler of the first great dictionary in English, the greatest of essayists, and one of the most distinctive characters and conversationalists in our literary culture, Johnson is here surveyed in his entirety. Chapters on the major works, his life, conversation, letters and critical reception appear alongside fresh thematic essays, a chronology and a guide to further reading.

Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/16/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.94" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



List of illustrations


Notes on contributors


Chronology


List of short titles and abbreviations


Introduction Greg Clingham



Extraordinarily ordinary: the life of Samuel




Johnson and the arts of conversation




Johnson's poetry




Johnson, the essay and The Rambler




Johnson and the condition of women




Johnson's dictionary




Johnson's politics




Johnson and imperialism




The skepticism of Johnson's Rasselas




Shakespeare: Johnson's poet of nature




Life and literature in Johnson's Lives of the Poets




Johnson's Christian thought




'From China to Peru': Johnson in the traveled world




'Letters about Nothing': Johnson and epistolary writing




Johnson's critical reception



Further reading


Index