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Reading Samuel Johnson: Reception and Representation, 1750-1970

Reading Samuel Johnson: Reception and Representation, 1750-1970

Hardcover

Series: Clemson University Press: Eighteenth-Century Moments

Literary CriticismGeneral EducationGeneral World History

ISBN10: 163804077X
ISBN13: 9781638040774
Publisher: Clemson University Press W/ Lup
Published: Dec 19 2023
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Reading Samuel Johnson examines how the eighteenth-century author, lexicographer, and wit, Samuel Johnson was later read and represented by writers between 1750 to 1970. The writers range from James Boswell and Jane Austen to Lord Byron and Samuel Beckett. The book focuses as much on these later writers as on Johnson himself. It also examines how Johnson sought to understand himself, and how later writers responded to or ignored Johnson's own self-understanding. This is the first detailed historical analysis of the way that later writers engaged with Samuel Johnson over an extended timeframe (of over 200 years).

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