Samuel Johnson as Book Reviewer: A Duty to Examine the Labors of the LearnedUniversity of Delaware Press, 2001 - 293 Seiten Critical analysis of Johnson's book reviews |
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... authorship and elsewhere . Johnson's declaration in Rambler 3 that the " task of an author is , either to teach what is not known , or to recommend known truths , by his manner of adorning them , " neatly describes the quality that ...
... authorship and elsewhere . Johnson's declaration in Rambler 3 that the " task of an author is , either to teach what is not known , or to recommend known truths , by his manner of adorning them , " neatly describes the quality that ...
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... authorship in its contemporary context . The reputation of the Rambler today rests largely on Johnson's searching analysis of timeless moral concepts , rendered in magnificent 1 : JOHNSON AND THE MID - EIGHTEENTH - CENTURY LITERARY WORLD ...
... authorship in its contemporary context . The reputation of the Rambler today rests largely on Johnson's searching analysis of timeless moral concepts , rendered in magnificent 1 : JOHNSON AND THE MID - EIGHTEENTH - CENTURY LITERARY WORLD ...
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... authorship during the 1750s , exhibiting in his journalistic commentary an interest in contemporary literary issues that has not yet been fully apprehended by scholars . Johnson may not have been a crusader for high literary standards ...
... authorship during the 1750s , exhibiting in his journalistic commentary an interest in contemporary literary issues that has not yet been fully apprehended by scholars . Johnson may not have been a crusader for high literary standards ...
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... authorship . Indeed , so artfully expressed and well known are Johnson's views on this matter that his writings are often characterized as a pure distillation of the classical and Renaissance humanist traditions in which the profession ...
... authorship . Indeed , so artfully expressed and well known are Johnson's views on this matter that his writings are often characterized as a pure distillation of the classical and Renaissance humanist traditions in which the profession ...
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... authorship can also be tied to the immediate historical moment . Rambler 154 , for instance , offers a rous- ing defense of the beneficent aims of professional letters as a part of an allusive attack on a recently published translation ...
... authorship can also be tied to the immediate historical moment . Rambler 154 , for instance , offers a rous- ing defense of the beneficent aims of professional letters as a part of an allusive attack on a recently published translation ...
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Johnson as a Reviewer of Historical Literary and Philosophical Titles in the Literary Magazine | 58 |
Johnson as a Reviewer of Journalistic Publications Fugitive Pieces and Books on Public Affairs in the Literary Magazine | 125 |
Johnson as Reviewer of Works in the Physical Practical and Natural Sciences in the Literary Magazine | 151 |
Johnson as an Occasional Reviewer in the Gentlemans Magazine and the Critical Review | 199 |
Book Reviewing in the Moral Essays Johnsons Commentary on Recently Published Books in the Rambler Adventurer and Idler | 225 |
The Canon of Johnsons Literary Magazine Reviews | 238 |
Notes | 241 |
Bibliography | 273 |
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