Samuel Johnson as Book Reviewer: A Duty to Examine the Labors of the LearnedUniversity of Delaware Press, 2001 - 293 pages Critical analysis of Johnson's book reviews |
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... Literary World As CRITICAL ESSAYS ON CONTEMPORARY WORKS , JOHNSON'S REVIEWS CAN BE FULLY appreciated only when they are placed in the context of Johnson's broader understanding of the mid - eighteenth - century literary marketplace . It ...
... Literary World As CRITICAL ESSAYS ON CONTEMPORARY WORKS , JOHNSON'S REVIEWS CAN BE FULLY appreciated only when they are placed in the context of Johnson's broader understanding of the mid - eighteenth - century literary marketplace . It ...
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... literary marketplace — the “ Sci- ences " end up in a remote cottage rather than in a shining city on a hill - is equally significant , because it reveals a good deal about the contemporane- ous context of the essay . Johnson in Rambler ...
... literary marketplace — the “ Sci- ences " end up in a remote cottage rather than in a shining city on a hill - is equally significant , because it reveals a good deal about the contemporane- ous context of the essay . Johnson in Rambler ...
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... literary marketplace during the mid - eighteenth century , as Dustin Griffin has shown , but clearly Johnson believed , and wanted his contemporaries to believe , that traditional forms of patronage had outlived their usefulness and ...
... literary marketplace during the mid - eighteenth century , as Dustin Griffin has shown , but clearly Johnson believed , and wanted his contemporaries to believe , that traditional forms of patronage had outlived their usefulness and ...
Contents
Foreword | 9 |
Samuel Johnson and the MidEighteenth | 19 |
Johnson as a Reviewer of Historical | 58 |
Copyright | |
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