"Philip Smallwood celebrates the emotional power and enduring wisdom of Samuel Johnson's literary criticism, showing how the abyss of the heart informs its powerful life"--
"Philip Smallwood celebrates the emotional power and enduring wisdom of Samuel Johnson's literary criticism, showing how the abyss of the heart informs its powerful life"--
Philip Smallwood is Emeritus Professor of English at Birmingham City University. He has written widely about Johnson's criticism and has lectured on his work internationally. Previous books include Johnson Re-Visioned (2001) and Johnson's Critical Presence (2004), which won the Choice 'Outstanding Academic Title' Award for 2005. This was followed by Critical Occasions (2011), his study of eighteenth-century critical history.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: The criteria of the heart Part I. Johnson's Criticism and the Forms of Feeling: 1. Johnson's compassion 2. 'The tears stand in my eyes': Johnson and emotion Part II. Critical Relations and the Art of Literary History: 3. Petty caviller or 'formidable assailant': Johnson reads Dennis 4. Readers curious and common: Johnson, Thomas Warton and historical form Part III. Johnson, Dramatic Poetry and Thinking: 5. Shakespeare, Johnson and philosophy 6. Two ways of being wise: Johnson, philosophy and Montaigne Part IV. Time, Truth and History: 7. Johnson and time 8. Truth, fiction and 'undisputed history' Part V. Editing Lives and Life: 9. Annotated immortality 10. Arts of structure and the rhythm of the lives.
Introduction: The criteria of the heart Part I. Johnson's Criticism and the Forms of Feeling: 1. Johnson's compassion 2. 'The tears stand in my eyes': Johnson and emotion Part II. Critical Relations and the Art of Literary History: 3. Petty caviller or 'formidable assailant': Johnson reads Dennis 4. Readers curious and common: Johnson, Thomas Warton and historical form Part III. Johnson, Dramatic Poetry and Thinking: 5. Shakespeare, Johnson and philosophy 6. Two ways of being wise: Johnson, philosophy and Montaigne Part IV. Time, Truth and History: 7. Johnson and time 8. Truth, fiction and 'undisputed history' Part V. Editing Lives and Life: 9. Annotated immortality 10. Arts of structure and the rhythm of the lives.
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