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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... worthy but subordinate role of the critic in the world of professional letters . These reviews also reward study because they show us John- son working to advance the state of contem- porary letters . As a reviewer Johnson can be said ...
... worthy but subordinate role of the critic in the world of professional letters . These reviews also reward study because they show us John- son working to advance the state of contem- porary letters . As a reviewer Johnson can be said ...
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... worthy of applause and imitation . " He adds that it is important for an author to engage in " discovering the truth , and recommending it , by the orna- ments of eloquence , to the favour of mankind . " Allegiance to this personal ...
... worthy of applause and imitation . " He adds that it is important for an author to engage in " discovering the truth , and recommending it , by the orna- ments of eloquence , to the favour of mankind . " Allegiance to this personal ...
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... worthy but subordinate role of the critic in the world of professional letters . In his reviews , Johnson almost always emphasizes the beneficent intentions of the authors under consideration while assigning relatively less weight to ...
... worthy but subordinate role of the critic in the world of professional letters . In his reviews , Johnson almost always emphasizes the beneficent intentions of the authors under consideration while assigning relatively less weight to ...
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... worthy of literary forms despite its great popu- larity with the reading public . 16 Yet Johnson in Rambler 4 praises the genre in theory even though he objects to the practices of Smollett , Fielding , and most other novelists . Indeed ...
... worthy of literary forms despite its great popu- larity with the reading public . 16 Yet Johnson in Rambler 4 praises the genre in theory even though he objects to the practices of Smollett , Fielding , and most other novelists . Indeed ...
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... worthy compilers , abridgers , translators , and journalists are given a sympathetic reception in the Literary Magazine , while the many incompe- tent writers — which , as far as Johnson was concerned , included the vast majority of ...
... worthy compilers , abridgers , translators , and journalists are given a sympathetic reception in the Literary Magazine , while the many incompe- tent writers — which , as far as Johnson was concerned , included the vast majority of ...
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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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