Domestick privacies
Subtitle: Samuel Johnson and the art of biography
By: edited by David Wheeler.
Contributors: Wheeler, David, 1950-
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.; Biography as a literary form.; Poets, English -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [167]-184.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, the uses of Johnson's biographies / David Wheeler; title: Johnson's beginnings / Lawrence Lipking; title: Life, art, and the Lives of the poets / James L. Battersby; title: Dr. Johnson's solemn response to beneficence / John A. Dussinger; title: Johnson's portraits of Charles XII of Sweden / James Gray; title: Johnson, Imlac, and biographical thinking / Catherine N. Parke; title: The contexts and motives of Johnson's Life of Milton / Stephen Fix; title: Johnson's Lives and modern students / William R. Siebenschuh; title: Johnson and biography / Michael Stuprich.