num_pages: 317
description: Although the Dictionary is primarily a philological work, DeMaria shows how it also serves literary, moral, and educational purposes. By analyzing the content of the 116,000 illustrative quotations used by Johnson, the author illuminates the major themes of the knowledge and ignorance, truth and probabiity, learning and education, language, religion, and morality. Johnson's choice of which quotations to include represents his vision of the intellectual landscape.
language: English
title: Johnson's Dictionary and the Language of Learning
titlecomplete: Johnson's Dictionary and the Language of Learning
ratings_count: 2
publisher: The University of North Carolina Press