The Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.d.

Informationen zum Autor John Hawkins (Author) JOHN HAWKINS (1719-1789) was an author and editor whose works include A General History of the Science and Practice of Music , which was first published in 1776. He was a very close and longtime friend of Samuel Johnson. O M Brack Jr. (Editor) O M BRACK, JR., a professor of English literature emeritus at Arizona State University, is coauthor of Samuel Johnson's Early Biographers and coeditor of The Early Biographies of Samuel Johnson . He has edited volumes of the Works of Samuel Johnson published by Yale and is textual editor for the Georgia series the Works of Tobias Smollett. Brack is the curator of the 2009 Johnson tercentenary exhibition at the Huntington Library. Klappentext This is the first and only scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., a work that has not been widely available in complete form for more than two hundred years. Published in 1787, some four years before James Boswell's biography of Johnson, Hawkins's Life complements, clarifies, and often corrects numerous aspects of Boswell's Life. Zusammenfassung An essential early Johnson biography, recovered from obscurity and reissued in celebration of the tercentenary of Johnson’s birth. Annotations address historical, literary, and linguistic uncertainties, and a full textual apparatus documents how Brack arrived at this definitive text of Hawkins's Life.

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• Authors: John Hawkins, John/ Brack Hawkins, Sir John Hawkins
• Assisted by: O M Brack (Editor), O. Brack (Editor), O. M. Brack (Editor), O. Brack Jr (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9780820344270
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4427-0
• No. of pages: 592
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies