The Life of Samuel JohnsonOlms, 1973 - 639 pages |
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Page xxii
... literary modes in which Johnson was proficient in a work published in 1815 is all but unique . The typical method in eighteenth - century literary bio- graphy of handling a writer's career , which Anderson himself used in his other ...
... literary modes in which Johnson was proficient in a work published in 1815 is all but unique . The typical method in eighteenth - century literary bio- graphy of handling a writer's career , which Anderson himself used in his other ...
Page xxx
... literary and biographical strategy since , by claiming to be above polemic , he suggests to the reader that he is actually impartial . A further part of the book's rhetoric is its claim to be making " a just estimate " of a literary ...
... literary and biographical strategy since , by claiming to be above polemic , he suggests to the reader that he is actually impartial . A further part of the book's rhetoric is its claim to be making " a just estimate " of a literary ...
Page xxxi
... literary strategies and bio- graphical methodology . Biography should present an accurate portrait capable of setting a high moral ex- ample which stresses the subject's public literary career more than his private , personal life ...
... literary strategies and bio- graphical methodology . Biography should present an accurate portrait capable of setting a high moral ex- ample which stresses the subject's public literary career more than his private , personal life ...
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