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Author : John T. Lynch
Release : 2005-04-14
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Anniversary Essays on Johnson's Dictionary by : John T. Lynch
Download or read book Anniversary Essays on Johnson's Dictionary written by John T. Lynch. This book was released on 2005-04-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of original essays celebrating the 250th anniversary of the publication of the Dictionary.
Author : James H. Sledd
Release : 1955
Genre : English language
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Book Synopsis Dr. Johnson's Dictionary by : James H. Sledd
Download or read book Dr. Johnson's Dictionary written by James H. Sledd. This book was released on 1955. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Hitchings
Release : 2006-10-17
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Defining the World by : Henry Hitchings
Download or read book Defining the World written by Henry Hitchings. This book was released on 2006-10-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly entertaining and enlightening, this volume tells the story of Samuel Johnson's endeavor to create an authoritative English dictionary. Hitchings describes Johnson's adventure--his ambition and vision, his moments of despair, the mistakes he made along the way, and his ultimate triumph.
Author : Gwin Jackson KOLB
Release : 1955
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Book Synopsis Dr. Johnson's Dictionary. Essays in the Biography of a Book by : Gwin Jackson KOLB
Download or read book Dr. Johnson's Dictionary. Essays in the Biography of a Book written by Gwin Jackson KOLB. This book was released on 1955. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack Lynch
Release : 2022-09-22
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson by : Jack Lynch
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson written by Jack Lynch. This book was released on 2022-09-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No major author worked in more genres than Samuel Johnson--essays, poetry, fiction, criticism, biography, scholarly editing, lexicography, translation, sermons, journalism. His works are more extensive than those of any other canonical English writer, and no earlier writer's life was documented as thoroughly by contemporaries. Because it's so difficult to know him thoroughly, people have made do with surrogates and simplifications. But Johnson was much more complicated than the popular image of 'Dr. Johnson' suggests: socially conservative but also one of the most radical abolitionists of his age, a firm believer in social hierarchy but an outspoken supporter of women intellectuals, an uncompromising Christian moralist but also a penetrating critic of family structures. Labels fit him poorly. In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, an international team of thirty-six scholars offers the most comprehensive examination ever attempted of one of the most complex figures in English literature. The book's first section examines Johnson's life and the texts of his works; the second, organized by genre, explores all his major works and many of his minor ones; the third, organized by topic, covers the subjects that were most important to him as a writer, as a thinker, and as a moralist.
