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Informationen zum Autor Philip Smallwood is Emeritus Professor of English at Birmingham City University. He has written widely about Johnson's criticism and has lectured on his work internationally. Previous books include Johnson Re-Visioned (2001) and Johnson's Critical Presence (2004), which won the Choice 'Outstanding Academic Title' Award for 2005. This was followed by Critical Occasions (2011), his study of eighteenth-century critical history. Klappentext "Philip Smallwood celebrates the emotional power and enduring wisdom of Samuel Johnson's literary criticism, showing how the abyss of the heart informs its powerful life"-- Vorwort A compelling case for the importance of the heart and emotions over that of critical theory in Johnson's literary criticism. Zusammenfassung Philip Smallwood celebrates the emotional power and enduring wisdom of Samuel Johnson's literary criticism, showing how the abyss of the heart informs its powerful life. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The criteria of the heart; Part I. Johnson's Criticism and the Forms of Feeling: 1. Johnson's compassion; 2. 'The tears stand in my eyes': Johnson and emotion; Part II. Critical Relations and the Art of Literary History: 3. Petty caviller or 'formidable assailant': Johnson reads Dennis; 4. Readers curious and common: Johnson, Thomas Warton and historical form; Part III. Johnson, Dramatic Poetry and Thinking: 5. Shakespeare, Johnson and philosophy; 6. Two ways of being wise: Johnson, philosophy and Montaigne; Part IV. Time, Truth and History: 7. Johnson and time; 8. Truth, fiction and 'undisputed history'; Part V. Editing Lives and Life: 9. Annotated immortality; 10. Arts of structure and the rhythm of the lives.
