Johnson and His Age

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About the author

James Engell is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University and co-editor of the Bollingen edition of the Biographia Literaria for the Collected Works of Coleridge.

Summary

Published in the bicentennial year of Samuel Johnson’s death, Johnson and His Age includes contributions by some of the nation’s most eminent scholars of eighteenth-century literature. It includes sections on Johnson’s life, major figures of the age, and the novel.

Product details

• Assisted by: James Engell (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1984
• EAN: 9780674480766
• ISBN: 978-0-674-48076-6
• No. of pages: 592
• Weight: 635 g
• Series: Harvard English Studies; Harvard English Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics