The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley

The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley
Author: Robert Dodsley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2004-01-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521522083

This fully annotated edition sheds much light on eighteenth-century British literary and publishing history.

The Rise of Robert Dodsley

The Rise of Robert Dodsley
Author: Harry M. Solomon
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780809316519

The new biography of the publisher and bookseller who premiered the work of Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson deftly integrates Dodsley's life story with the literary transition from court patronage to the age of print that paved the way for the Romantic movement of the 19th century. Solomon (English, Auburn U.) details the unique circumstances that led Dodsley from his position as a weaver's apprentice to his career as a playwright, culminating in his last incarnation as one of the most influential literary forces of his time. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Aspects of Samuel Johnson

Aspects of Samuel Johnson
Author: Howard D. Weinbrot
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780874138740

Howard D. Weinbrot's Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics collects earlier and new essays on Johnson's varied achievements in lexicography, poetry, narrative, and prose style. It considers Johnson's uses of the general and the particular as they relate to the reader's role in the creative process, his complex approach to the concept of literary genre, and his resolutely in-human view of skepticism.

Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Wells, Edgar H. & Co
Publisher:
Total Pages: 980
Release: 1928
Genre: Catalogs, Booksellers'
ISBN:

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Author: Isabel Rivers
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2003-06-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1847144004

This collection of eight new essays investigates ways in which significant kinds of 18th-century writings were designed and received by different audiences. Rivers explores the answers to certain crucial questions about the contemporary use of books. This new edition contains the results of important new research by well known specialists in the field of book and publishing history over the last two decades.