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Dr Johnson And His Women
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Author : Kate Chisholm
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2006-12
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Wits And Wives
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Author : Kate Chisholm
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-04-24
Wits And Wives written by Kate Chisholm and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-24 with History categories.
Dr Johnson is often thought of as a strident, overbearing conversationalist, a man who famously asserted that 'Women have all the liberty they should wish to have'. But in this revealing book Kate Chisholm argues it is time to consider how Johnson lived his life, not just what he said. She proposes that the heart of the man, the truth of his character, can more clearly be seen via his many - close, generous, equal - relationships with women. At one end of the spectrum were Johnson's mother Sarah; his 'painted poppet' wife Tetty; and the women, like the prostitute Poll Carmichael and the blind poetess Anna Williams, he took in when they had nowhere else to go. At the other end were Mary Wollstonecraft, who refers to Johnson in Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Hester Thrale, renowned wit and Johnson's 'dear mistress'; Elizabeth Carter, whose translation of Epictetus was an instant bestseller; and many more besides. By looking again at this controversial figure through the eyes of this extraordinary cast of female characters, we can discover the essential and unexpected Johnson.
Dr Johnson S Women
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Author : Norma Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-07-31
Dr Johnson S Women written by Norma Clarke and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Dr Johnson's friendships with the leading women writers of the day was an important feature of his life and theirs. He was willing to treat women as intellectual equals and to promote their careers: something ignored by his main biographer, James Boswell. Dr Johnson's Women investigates the lives and writings of six leading female authors Johnson knew well: Elizabeth Carter, Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Montagu, Hester Thrale, Hannah More and Fanny Burney. It explores their relationships with Johnson, with each other and with the world of letters. It shows what it was like to be a woman writer in the 'Age of Johnson'. It is often assumed that women writers in the eighteenth century suffered the same restrictions and obstacles that confronted their Victorian successors. Norma Clarke shows that this was by no means the case. Highlighting the opportunities available to women of talent in the eighteenth century, Dr Johnson's Women makes clear just how impressive and varied their achievements were.
Doctor Johnson And The Fair Sex
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Author : William H. Craig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-12
Doctor Johnson And The Fair Sex written by William H. Craig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-12 with Literary Collections categories.
Excerpt from Doctor Johnson and the Fair Sex: A Study of Contrasts My chief object in writing this book was to provide those who are curious on the subject, but lack time or inclination for research, with a convenient summary of what is known about the relations that existed between Dr. Samuel Johnson and divers notable women of his time. To this I have added short descriptions of certain ladies whose names, though occurring frequently in the story of Johnson's life, may have become more or less unfamiliar to the average reader of our own day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Doctor Johnson And The Fair Sex
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Author : William Henry Craig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
Doctor Johnson And The Fair Sex written by William Henry Craig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Authors, English categories.
Samuel Johnson
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Author : Peter Martin
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-08-16
Samuel Johnson written by Peter Martin and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The first new biography for a generation of one of the great figures of English literature Poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, critic, conversationalist and wit, Dr Johnson is one of the great figures of English literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer after Shakespeare. Our view of Johnson has been overwhelmingly shaped by James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, published in 1791, the most famous biography in the English language. But invaluable as Boswell is as a source, he should not be the last word. This new biography illuminates the Johnson that Boswell never knew: the awkward youth, the unsuccessful schoolmaster, the eccentric marriage, his early years in London in the 1740s scratching a living, the epic struggle to produce the Dictionary. Very much the outsider, rather than the supremely confident dispenser of robust common sense. Using material unknown to previous biographers, Peter Martin describes the psychological knife-edge on which Johnson felt he lived, caused by his severe melancholia and his physical diseases. He explores Johnson's role in the publishing and printing world of the time and he reveals how important women were to Johnson throughout his life. The Samuel Johnson that emerges from this enthralling biography is still the foremost figure of his age but a more rebellious, unpredictable and sympathetic figure than the one that Boswell so memorably portrayed.
The Oxford Handbook Of Samuel Johnson
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Author : Jack Lynch
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-25
The Oxford Handbook Of Samuel Johnson written by Jack Lynch and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
No major author worked in more genres than Samuel Johnson—essays, poetry, fiction, criticism, biography, scholarly editing, lexicography, translation, sermons, journalism. His works are more extensive than those of any other canonical English writer, and no earlier writer's life was documented as thoroughly by contemporaries. Because it's so difficult to know him thoroughly, people have made do with surrogates and simplifications. But Johnson was much more complicated than the popular image of 'Dr. Johnson' suggests: socially conservative but also one of the most radical abolitionists of his age, a firm believer in social hierarchy but an outspoken supporter of women intellectuals, an uncompromising Christian moralist but also a penetrating critic of family structures. Labels fit him poorly. In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, an international team of thirty-six scholars offers the most comprehensive examination ever attempted of one of the most complex figures in English literature. The book's first section examines Johnson's life and the texts of his works; the second, organized by genre, explores all his major works and many of his minor ones; the third, organized by topic, covers the subjects that were most important to him as a writer, as a thinker, and as a moralist.
Samuel Johnson And The Making Of Modern England
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Author : Nicholas Hudson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-10-30
Samuel Johnson And The Making Of Modern England written by Nicholas Hudson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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. In Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England Nicholas Hudson argues that Johnson not only came to personify English cultural identity but did much to shape it. Hudson examines his contribution to the creation of the modern English identity, approaching Johnson's writing and conversation from scarcely explored directions of cultural criticism - class politics, feminism, party politics, the public sphere, nationalism, and imperialism. Hudson charts the career of an author who rose from obscurity to fame during precisely the period that England became the dominant ideological force in the Western world. In exploring the relations between Johnson's career and the development of England's modern national identity, Hudson develops new and provocative arguments concerning both Johnson's literary achievement and the nature of English Nationhood.
Samuel Johnson And The Powers Of Friendship
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Author : A. D. Cousins
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-11-30
Samuel Johnson And The Powers Of Friendship written by A. D. Cousins and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is the first to assess Johnson’s diverse insights into friendship—that is to say, his profound as well as widely ranging appreciation of it—over the course of his long literary career. It examines his engagements with ancient philosophies of friendship and with subsequent reformulations of or departures from that diverse inheritance. The volume explores and illuminates 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. Doing so, it considers both his portrayals of interaction with his friends and his more overtly fictional representations of friendship across the many genres in which he wrote. It presents at once an original re-assessment of Johnson’s writings and new interpretations of friendship as an element of civility in mid-eighteenth-century British culture.
Dr Johnson And Company
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Author : Robert Lynd
language : en
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran
Release Date : 1928
Dr Johnson And Company written by Robert Lynd and has been published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with Literary Criticism categories.
A study of Dr. Johnson & his contemporaries.