An analysis of the life and thought of the writer Samuel Johnson from an historian's viewpoint.
We, as moderns, need to know this man, and W. Jackson Bate's formidable biography, with its uncanny depth and empathy, is the book that makes that happen.
Contrary to virtually all preceding studies of Johnson's life, politics, and art, Donald Greene declared that the popular image of Johnson--one that even pervaded academic circles--was a caricature, an amalgam of misconceptions, ...
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...
In looking at the works of Aime' Césaire and Frantz Fanon, Tom Nairn and Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall and Terry Eagleton, Gikandi was surprised to see that narratives about England's shaping of colonial identities were not paired with ...
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Life and Conversations of Dr. Samuel Johnson: (founded Chiefly Upon Boswell).
Selected Poetry and Prose
Reproduction of the original: The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson