The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson

The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 19
Release: 1958
Genre: Authors, English
ISBN: 9780300030037

"Although Samuel Johnson is recognized as the central English literary figure of the second half of the 18th century, and the period is often referred to as "The Age of Johnson," no consequential edition of his works has appeared since 1825, and no edition at any time has exercised the care in presenting the complete and accurate text of his works that modern readers require. Now, Yale University is sponsoring a new edition of the works of Samuel Johnson, to include writings identified as his during the last twenty-five years and not printed in any previous collection of his works."--

The Interpretation of Samuel Johnson

The Interpretation of Samuel Johnson
Author: J. Clark
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2012-06-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137264721

A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive conclusion, retrieving the 'historic Johnson.'

The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson: Sermons

The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson: Sermons
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 470
Release: 1958
Genre: Authors, English
ISBN:

Although Samuel Johnson is recognized as the central English literary figure of the second half of the 18th century, and the period is often referred to as "The Age of Johnson," no consequential edition of his works has appeared since 1825, and no edition at any time has exercised the care in presenting the complete and accurate text of his works that modern readers require. Now, Yale University is sponsoring a new edition of the works of Samuel Johnson, to include writings identified as his during the last twenty-five years and not printed in any previous collection of his works. -- Publisher.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vols 11-13

The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vols 11-13
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 1680
Release: 2011-11-22
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780300125177

From July 1741 to March 1744, Samuel Johnson composed speeches based on the actual debates in Parliament for publication in the Gentleman's Magazine. Because it was then illegal to print any account of parliamentary activities, the magazine published Johnson's contributions as the rather thinly disguised "Debates in the Senate of Magna Lilliputia." These three volumes present Johnson's entire debate project with accompanying critical notes and, for the first time, retain his original Lilliputian terminology.

Samuel Johnson After 300 Years

Samuel Johnson After 300 Years
Author: Greg Clingham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2009-05-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521888212

To mark the tercentenary of Samuel Johnson's birth in 2009, the specially-commissioned essays contained here review his scholarly reputation. An international team of experts reflects authoritatively on the various dimensions of literary, historical, critical and ethical life touched by Johnson's extraordinary achievement. The volume distinctively casts its net widely and combines consistently innovative thinking on Johnson's historical role with a fresh sense of present criticism. Chapters cover subjects as diverse as Johnson's moral philosophy, his legal thought, his influence on Jane Austen, and the question of the Johnson canon. The contributors examine the larger theoretical and scholarly contexts in which it is now possible to situate his work, and from which it may often be necessary to differentiate it. All the contributors have a distinguished record of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies, Johnson scholarship, and cultural history and theory.

The Politics of Samuel Johnson

The Politics of Samuel Johnson
Author: Donald Greene
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0820333727

First published in 1960, The Politics of Samuel Johnson remains one of the most significant studies of Johnson ever written. Contrary to virtually all preceding studies of Johnson's life, politics, and art, Donald Greene declared that the popular image of Johnson--one that even pervaded academic circles--was a caricature, an amalgam of misconceptions, inaccuracies, and sometimes deliberate untruths drawn from the works of his well-intentioned friend Boswell and his detractor Macaulay.In the Introduction to the second edition, Greene reasserts--in light of three decades of Johnsonian scholarship--his attack on the stereotyping of Johnson as a bigoted, party-line Tory and a crypto-Jacobite. Utilizing new material such as Thomas Curley's edition of the Chambers/Johnson Vinerian law lectures and the sale catalogue to Johnson's library to support his argument, Greene also warns that Johnson is still misquoted and misunderstood in situations from classroom lectures to discussions of Britain's role in the 1982 Falklands War.

Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking

Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking
Author: Catherine Neal Parke
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1991
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780826207890

Catherine N. Parke offers new readings of Johnson's major prose writings, the familiar and the not so familiar. Through an inquiry into the centrality of biography in his thinking, she examines Johnson's ideas about education, portrays his habits of mind, and explores his creative temperment.