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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... trade . That a writer was degraded by writing for money was a truism long before Johnson be- came an author , and in the middle years of the eighteenth century writing for hire , becoming a hackney or hack writer , was inextricably ...
... trade . That a writer was degraded by writing for money was a truism long before Johnson be- came an author , and in the middle years of the eighteenth century writing for hire , becoming a hackney or hack writer , was inextricably ...
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... trade . I would like to thank also the staff of the United States Air Force Academy Cadet Library , in particular Noel Defosset and Kelly Merriam , for their courteousness and efficiency . Finally , I am very much indebted to Brigadier ...
... trade . I would like to thank also the staff of the United States Air Force Academy Cadet Library , in particular Noel Defosset and Kelly Merriam , for their courteousness and efficiency . Finally , I am very much indebted to Brigadier ...
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... trade eager to produce sordid or slapdash material for a public willing to pay for it . Indeed , the book trade had been retailing frivolity , inanity , and low voluptuousness right up until the lapse of the Licensing Act in 1694 , as a ...
... trade eager to produce sordid or slapdash material for a public willing to pay for it . Indeed , the book trade had been retailing frivolity , inanity , and low voluptuousness right up until the lapse of the Licensing Act in 1694 , as a ...
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... trade was obsessed with profits and was indiffer- ent to literary merit in some measure led to the creation and subsequent popularity of regular reviewing . It scarcely needs mentioning that Johnson's four essays on the subject ...
... trade was obsessed with profits and was indiffer- ent to literary merit in some measure led to the creation and subsequent popularity of regular reviewing . It scarcely needs mentioning that Johnson's four essays on the subject ...
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... trade , the collector of antiquities , that accounts every thing a curiosity which the ruins of Herculaneum happen to emit , though an instrument already shewn in a thousand repositories , or a cup common to the ancients , the moderns ...
... trade , the collector of antiquities , that accounts every thing a curiosity which the ruins of Herculaneum happen to emit , though an instrument already shewn in a thousand repositories , or a cup common to the ancients , the moderns ...
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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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Adventurer Alexander Pope appeared argues authorship balneology Basker Berkenhout Blackwell Blackwell's Book Reviewer book trade Borlase Boswell Boswell's Bower's Brack Browne's Byng chapter Charlotte Lennox Cleeve's contemporary Critical Review Dictionary Johnson Dictionary of National earlier Eddy edition English extract Female Quixote genius Gentleman's Magazine given Grainger Hampton's Hanway Hanway's Hawkesworth Idler James Grainger Jenyns John John Hawkesworth Johnson declares Johnson observes Johnson's commentary Johnson's review Joseph Warton Keyssler's leading review journals Lennox's Literary Magazine Literary Magazine review literary marketplace Literature London Lovett's Lucas Lucas's material Memoirs Monthly Review Monthly's moral National Biography Natural History Newton's Oliver Goldsmith Oroonoko outlook Oxford pamphlet patronage perhaps Philosophical piece Poets political Polybius Pope Pope's praise prefatory professional letters published Rambler reflect remarks Reviewed by Johnson Robert Dodsley Rousseau Samuel Johnson scholarly Thomas tion titles Tobias Smollett translation Tytler's University Press volume Warton's William worthy write Yale