Samuel Johnson
The Arc of the Pendulum
Herausgeber: Johnston, Freya; Mugglestone, Lynda
Samuel Johnson
The Arc of the Pendulum
Herausgeber: Johnston, Freya; Mugglestone, Lynda
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This book offers wide-ranging coverage of Samuel Johnson's life, work, and reception across fifteen thematically cohesive chapters. Taking as its point of departure William Hazlitt's famous comparison between Johnson's prose style and a pendulum, this volume will contest and rebalance the metaphor of the pendulum.
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This book offers wide-ranging coverage of Samuel Johnson's life, work, and reception across fifteen thematically cohesive chapters. Taking as its point of departure William Hazlitt's famous comparison between Johnson's prose style and a pendulum, this volume will contest and rebalance the metaphor of the pendulum.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
- Seitenzahl: 240
- Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2013
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 223mm x 141mm x 18mm
- Gewicht: 417g
- ISBN-13: 9780199654345
- ISBN-10: 0199654344
- Artikelnr.: 35936464
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
- Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
- Seitenzahl: 240
- Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2013
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 223mm x 141mm x 18mm
- Gewicht: 417g
- ISBN-13: 9780199654345
- ISBN-10: 0199654344
- Artikelnr.: 35936464
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
Freya Johnston is University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in English Language and Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford. She is the author of Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709-1791 (Oxford University Press, 2005) and of various articles and chapters in books on Johnson, Austen, and their contemporaries. She is general co-editor, with Matthew Bevis, of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Lynda Mugglestone is Professor of the History of English at Oxford University, and Fellow and Tutor in English at Pembroke College, Oxford. She has published widely on language (including the history and social and cultural roles of dictionaries), with a particular focus on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Recent work includes: Lexicography and the OED: Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest (Oxford University Press, 2000); Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary (Yale University Press, 2005); 'Talking Proper': The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol (Oxford University Press 2nd edn. 2003; revised paperback edn, 2007) and Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011). She is editor of The Oxford History of English (Oxford University Press, 2006, 2007).
* 1: Freya Johnston and Lynda Mugglestone: Introduction
* 2: Philip Smallwood: Johnson and Time
* 3: Robert DeMaria, Jr.: Johnson and Change
* 4: John Richetti: Johnson's Assertions and Concessions: Moral
Irresolution and Rhetorical Performance
* 5: Philip Davis: Johnson: Sanity and Syntax
* 6: Adam Phillips: Johnson's Freud
* 7: John Mullan: Fault finding in Johnson's Lives of the Poets
* 8: Lawrence Lipking: Johnson and Genius
* 9: Freya Johnston: Johnson Personified
* 10: Jane Steen: The Creation of Character
* 11: Charlotte Brewer: 'Goose-quill or Ganders?': Female writers in
Johnson's Dictionary?
* 12: Lynda Mugglestone: The Battle of the Word-Books: Competition, the
Common Reader, and Johnson's Dictionary
* 13: James McLaverty: Fixity and Instability in the Text of Johnson's
Poems
* 14: Isobel Grundy: What is it about Johnson?
* 15: David Fairer: Johnson and the Warton Brothers
* 16: Howard D. Weinbrot: Johnson Rebalanced: The Happy Man, The
Supportive Family, and his Social Religion
* 2: Philip Smallwood: Johnson and Time
* 3: Robert DeMaria, Jr.: Johnson and Change
* 4: John Richetti: Johnson's Assertions and Concessions: Moral
Irresolution and Rhetorical Performance
* 5: Philip Davis: Johnson: Sanity and Syntax
* 6: Adam Phillips: Johnson's Freud
* 7: John Mullan: Fault finding in Johnson's Lives of the Poets
* 8: Lawrence Lipking: Johnson and Genius
* 9: Freya Johnston: Johnson Personified
* 10: Jane Steen: The Creation of Character
* 11: Charlotte Brewer: 'Goose-quill or Ganders?': Female writers in
Johnson's Dictionary?
* 12: Lynda Mugglestone: The Battle of the Word-Books: Competition, the
Common Reader, and Johnson's Dictionary
* 13: James McLaverty: Fixity and Instability in the Text of Johnson's
Poems
* 14: Isobel Grundy: What is it about Johnson?
* 15: David Fairer: Johnson and the Warton Brothers
* 16: Howard D. Weinbrot: Johnson Rebalanced: The Happy Man, The
Supportive Family, and his Social Religion
* 1: Freya Johnston and Lynda Mugglestone: Introduction
* 2: Philip Smallwood: Johnson and Time
* 3: Robert DeMaria, Jr.: Johnson and Change
* 4: John Richetti: Johnson's Assertions and Concessions: Moral
Irresolution and Rhetorical Performance
* 5: Philip Davis: Johnson: Sanity and Syntax
* 6: Adam Phillips: Johnson's Freud
* 7: John Mullan: Fault finding in Johnson's Lives of the Poets
* 8: Lawrence Lipking: Johnson and Genius
* 9: Freya Johnston: Johnson Personified
* 10: Jane Steen: The Creation of Character
* 11: Charlotte Brewer: 'Goose-quill or Ganders?': Female writers in
Johnson's Dictionary?
* 12: Lynda Mugglestone: The Battle of the Word-Books: Competition, the
Common Reader, and Johnson's Dictionary
* 13: James McLaverty: Fixity and Instability in the Text of Johnson's
Poems
* 14: Isobel Grundy: What is it about Johnson?
* 15: David Fairer: Johnson and the Warton Brothers
* 16: Howard D. Weinbrot: Johnson Rebalanced: The Happy Man, The
Supportive Family, and his Social Religion
* 2: Philip Smallwood: Johnson and Time
* 3: Robert DeMaria, Jr.: Johnson and Change
* 4: John Richetti: Johnson's Assertions and Concessions: Moral
Irresolution and Rhetorical Performance
* 5: Philip Davis: Johnson: Sanity and Syntax
* 6: Adam Phillips: Johnson's Freud
* 7: John Mullan: Fault finding in Johnson's Lives of the Poets
* 8: Lawrence Lipking: Johnson and Genius
* 9: Freya Johnston: Johnson Personified
* 10: Jane Steen: The Creation of Character
* 11: Charlotte Brewer: 'Goose-quill or Ganders?': Female writers in
Johnson's Dictionary?
* 12: Lynda Mugglestone: The Battle of the Word-Books: Competition, the
Common Reader, and Johnson's Dictionary
* 13: James McLaverty: Fixity and Instability in the Text of Johnson's
Poems
* 14: Isobel Grundy: What is it about Johnson?
* 15: David Fairer: Johnson and the Warton Brothers
* 16: Howard D. Weinbrot: Johnson Rebalanced: The Happy Man, The
Supportive Family, and his Social Religion