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PaperbackEngels9781398523616
5-6-2025
Welcome to Spring Hill Square’s community of women in the heartwarming, feelgood new novel from the much-loved Sunday Times bestselling author,... Meer
PaperbackEngels9780198830689
6-9-2018
Popular readings of Johnson as a dictionary-maker often see him as a writer who both laments and attempts to control the state of the language. Lynda Mugglestone looks at the range of Johnson's writings on, and the complexity of his thinking about, language and lexicography. Meer
GebondenEngels9780199679904
27-8-2015
Popular readings of Johnson as a dictionary-maker often see him as a writer who both laments and attempts to control the state of the language. Lynda Mugglestone looks at the range of Johnson's writings on, and the complexity of his thinking about, language and lexicography. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521121408
15-10-2009
Kevin Hart traces the vast literary legacy and reputation of Samuel Johnson. Through detailed analyses of the biographers, critics and epigones who carefully crafted and preserved Johnson's life for posterity, Hart explores the emergence of what came to be called 'The Age of Johnson'. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781108965781
29-9-2022
Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find the New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson deeply informed and appealingly written. Each newly commissioned chapter explores aspects of Johnson's writing and thought, including his ethical grasp of life, his views of language, the roots of his ideas in Renaissance humanism, and his skeptical-humane style. Meer
GebondenEngels9781108832823
29-9-2022
Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find the New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson deeply informed and appealingly written. Each newly commissioned chapter explores aspects of Johnson's writing and thought, including his ethical grasp of life, his views of language, the roots of his ideas in Renaissance humanism, and his skeptical-humane style. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521651820
28-9-1999
Kevin Hart traces the vast literary legacy and reputation of Samuel Johnson. Through detailed analyses of the biographers, critics and epigones who carefully crafted and preserved Johnson's life for posterity, Hart explores the emergence of what came to be called 'The Age of Johnson'. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781032361062
13-4-2025
It explores Johnson’s understanding of friendship in the private and public spheres - in particular, friendship’s therapeutic amelioration of personal experience and transformative impact upon civil life. Meer
GebondenEngels9780198204527
10-11-1994
This is a lively and readable reinterpretation of the Georgian political order. Samuel Johnson's life (1709-1784) spans most of the eighteenth cetnury. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521045742
3-12-2007
Samuel Johnson, one of the most renowned authors of the eighteenth century, became virtually a symbol of English national identity in the century following his death in 1784. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521831253
30-10-2003
Samuel Johnson, one of the most renowned authors of the eighteenth century, became virtually a symbol of English national identity in the century following his death in 1784. Meer
GebondenEngels9780199251827
17-2-2005
The traditional view of Samuel Johnson as hostile to particulars, trifles, and aesthetic mediocrity only half-explains his authorial character. Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking 1709-1791 argues that, in a period dominated by social and literary hierarchies, Johnson's works reveal a defining interest in 'little', 'mean', or 'low' topics and people. Meer
onbekendEngels9781108031820
15-9-2011
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709–84) is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781108059954
6-6-2013
One of the most celebrated individuals of English literature, Samuel Johnson (1709–84) was a defining figure of his age. In addition to his celebrated labours as a lexicographer, Johnson distinguished himself as a poet, essayist, critic, biographer and editor. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781108059961
6-6-2013
One of the most celebrated individuals of English literature, Samuel Johnson (1709–84) was a defining figure of his age. In addition to his celebrated labours as a lexicographer, Johnson distinguished himself as a poet, essayist, critic, biographer and editor. Meer
GebondenEngels9784901481694
31-1-2006
‘The most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature.’ by (W. J. Bate)
This is a reprint of the rare first edition (first issue) of the Boswell's biography which has never been reprinted in facsimile format before. Meer
GebondenEngels9780849300585
27-6-2000
Should damaged trees be clear cut and replanted or allowed to recover naturally? Is the deer herd large enough to survive hunting pressure? Managing forest resources entails numerous decisions. Meer
GebondenEngels9780199284825
16-2-2006
Johnson himself wrote in 1782: 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets'. Always recognized as a major biographical and critical achievement, Samuel Johnson's last literary project is also one of his most readable and entertaining, written with characteristic eloquence and conviction, and at times with combative trenchancy. Meer
GebondenEngels9780199284801
16-2-2006
Johnson himself wrote in 1782: 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets'. Always recognized as a major biographical and critical achievement, Samuel Johnson's last literary project is also one of his most readable and entertaining, written with characteristic eloquence and conviction, and at times with combative trenchancy. Meer