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Samuel Johnson and the Essay

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When Samuel Johnson is discussed as an essayist, his and Idler are generally the works that are considered. This is the first study to take account of the effect of Johnson's essayistic talents on the entirety of his writing. Setting forth the particular characteristics of the genre that are present in Johnson's contributions to the political controversies of his time, this analysis examines those qualities of Johnson's thought and methods that naturally led to his dependence on the essay form in polemical engagements throughout his career. In detail, Spector's study then goes on to explore the manner in which Johnson employed the essay not only in forms normally related to the genre, but in literary types ordinarily considered remote from it. The and Idler, along with Johnson's periodical essays in the Adventurer, are themselves looked at from a fresh point of view-the ways in which Johnson the professional writer, without regard for posterity, addressed the interests of the common reader of his century.

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The Characteristic Essayist
Crossing the Genres
"Cater-Cousins" to the Essay
The Periodical Essays and the Common Reader
Notes
Bibliography
Index


Über den Autor / die Autorin

ROBERT D. SPECTOR is Professor Emeritus of English and coordinator of both the divisions of Humanities and of Communications, Fine and Performing Arts at Long Island University in Brooklyn. Author of more than 400 articles and reviews, he has published ten books, nine on eighteenth century topics. Previous books include Smollett's Women: A Study in an Eighteenth-Century Masculine Sensibility (1994), Political Controversy: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Propaganda (1992), Backgrounds to Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature: An Annotated Bibliographical Guide to Modern Scholarship (1989), and The English Gothic: A Bibliographic Guide to Writers from Horace Walpole to Mary Shelley (1984), all published by Greenwood.

Produktdetails

Autoren Robert Spector, Robert D. Spector
Verlag Bloomsbury
 
Sprache Englisch
Produktform Fester Einband
Erschienen 22.04.1997
 
EAN 9780313297755
ISBN 978-0-313-29775-5
Themen Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik

English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, The Arts: World Literature

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