| Description |
xi, 182 pages : portrait ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Essays first presented at the Seventh Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The unknown Samuel Johnson / John J. Burke, Jr. -- Johnson, stoicism, and the good life / Donald Greene -- Johnson and the concordia discors of human relationships / Jean H. Hagstrum -- Johnson, Dryden, and the wild vicissitudes of taste / Maximillian E. Novak -- Johnson's day, and Boswell's / Richard B. Schwartz -- Johnson's secret collaboration / Thomas M. Curley -- Johnson's condemned sermon / Paul K. Alkon -- The significance of Johnson's changing views of the Hebrides / John B. Radner -- Travels into the unknown: "Rasselas" and "A journey to the western islands of Scotland" / Edward Tomarken. |
| Subject |
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Burke, John J., 1942-
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Kay, Donald.
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Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature (7th : 1980 : University of Alabama)
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| ISBN |
0299091503: $30.00 |
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