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Thanks to Boswell's monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, we remember Dr. Johnson today as a great wit and conversationalist, the rationalist epitome and the sage of the Enlightenment. But in Johnson's own day, he was best known as an essayist, critic, and lexicographer. At the center of...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 (Author)
Other Authors: Martin, Peter, 1940- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Johnson, Samuel, > 1709-1784 > Literary collections.
Johnson, Samuel, > 1709-1784
LITERARY CRITICISM.
European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English.
English Literature.
Languages & Literatures.
Literary collections
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Periodical essays (1750-1760). Morality, behavior and psychology
  • Society and manners
  • Biography and autobiography
  • Literature and authorship
  • Death
  • Politics
  • pt. 2. Excerpts from the preface to A dictionary of the English language (1755)
  • pt. 3. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759)
  • pt. 4. Preface to The plays of William Shakespeare (1765)
  • Excerpts from Lives of the poets.

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