Aspects of Samuel Johnson
Subtitle: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, And Politics
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses
Published: December 5, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9780874138740
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary; Essays; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literature: Classics; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 1709-1784; Criticism and interpretation; Johnson, Samuel,; Knowledge and learning; Political and social views
Description: "Aspects of Samuel Johnson contributes to the 250th anniversary of the appearance of Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755). The volume assembles sixteen of Weinbrot's earlier, recent, and new essays that help to clarify aspects of Johnson's arts, mind or intellectual modes of proceeding, later reputation, and politics."--Jacket.