Samuel Johnson: The Life of an AuthorHarvard University Press, 2009 M07 1 - 384 pages He was a servant to the public, a writer for hire. He was a hero, an author adding to the glory of his nation. But can a writer be both hack and hero? The career of Samuel Johnson, recounted here by Lawrence Lipking, proves that the two can be one. And it further proves, in its enduring interest for readers, that academic fashions today may be a bit hasty in pronouncing the "death of the author." |
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... University Press of Kentucky , 1987 ) ; Chapter 11 , on a piece from Wilson Quarterly , later revised in Re - Viewing Samuel Johnson , ed . Nalini Jain ( Bombay : Popular Prakasham , 1991 ) . CONTENTS Introduction 1 1. The Birth of the ...
... academic circles . Not only have the rebels failed to change the world ; they have also failed to under- stand their own complicity with the forces of oppression . At a mini- mum , this line of thought attacks the self - absorption of ...
... press ; the growth of literacy ; the discovery of the Ameri- cas ; the codification of gender ; censorship by the state ; the rise of nationalism ; copyright law ; and , of course , the police . None of these hypothetical causes of ...
Contents
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Preferments Gate The Vanity of Human Wishes | 86 |
Man of Letters A Dictionary of the English Language | 103 |
The Living World The Rambler | 145 |
Reclaiming Imagination Rasselas | 173 |
The Theater of Mind The Plays of William Shakespeare | 198 |
Journeying Westward Political Writings A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
Touching the Shore The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
The Life to Come Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Abbreviation | 307 |
Notes | 309 |
Index | 363 |