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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. Among the
themes engaged are history, disability, gender, politics, race,
slavery, Johnson's representation in art, and the significance of
the Yale Edition. Works discussed include Johnson's poetry and
fiction, his moral essays and political tracts, his Shakespeare
edition and Dictionary, and his critical, biographical, and travel
writing. A narrated Further Reading provides an informative guide
to the study of Johnson, and a substantial Introduction highlights
how his literary practice, philosophical values, and life
experience provide a challenge to readers new and established.
Through fresh, integrated insights, this authoritative guide
reveals the surprising contemporaneity of Johnson's thought.
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Johnson in Japan (Hardcover)
Kimiyo Ogawa, Mika Suzuki; Foreword by Greg Clingham; Contributions by Hideichi Eto, Noriyuki Harada, …
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The study and reception of Samuel Johnson’s work has long been
embedded in Japanese literary culture. The essays in this
collection reflect that history and influence, underscoring the
richness of Johnson scholarship in Japan, while exploring broader
conditions in Japanese academia today. In examining Johnson’s
works such as the Rambler (1750-52), Rasselas (1759), Lives of the
Most Eminent English Poets (1779-81), and Journey to the Western
Islands of Scotland (1775), the contributors—all members of the
half-century-old Johnson Society of Japan—also engage with the
work of other important English writers, namely Shakespeare, Mary
Shelley, Jane Austen, and Matthew Arnold, and later Japanese
writers, including Natsume Soseki (1867-1916). If the state of
Johnson studies in Japan is unfamiliar to Western academics, this
volume offers a unique opportunity to appreciate Johnson’s
centrality to Japanese education and intellectual life, and to
reassess how he may be perceived in a different cultural context.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide
by Rutgers University Press.
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Johnson in Japan (Paperback)
Kimiyo Ogawa, Mika Suzuki; Foreword by Greg Clingham; Contributions by Hideichi Eto, Noriyuki Harada, …
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R950
Discovery Miles 9 500
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The study and reception of Samuel Johnson’s work has long been
embedded in Japanese literary culture. The essays in this
collection reflect that history and influence, underscoring the
richness of Johnson scholarship in Japan, while exploring broader
conditions in Japanese academia today. In examining Johnson’s
works such as the Rambler (1750-52), Rasselas (1759), Lives of the
Most Eminent English Poets (1779-81), and Journey to the Western
Islands of Scotland (1775), the contributors—all members of the
half-century-old Johnson Society of Japan—also engage with the
work of other important English writers, namely Shakespeare, Mary
Shelley, Jane Austen, and Matthew Arnold, and later Japanese
writers, including Natsume Soseki (1867-1916). If the state of
Johnson studies in Japan is unfamiliar to Western academics, this
volume offers a unique opportunity to appreciate Johnson’s
centrality to Japanese education and intellectual life, and to
reassess how he may be perceived in a different cultural context.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide
by Rutgers University Press.
Boswell's Life of Johnson is established as one of the foremost
literary biographies in the English language. This 1991 collection
of essays, commemorating its bicentenary, investigates Boswell's
achievements and limitations in both literary and personal
contexts, and goes beyond the Life to examine the full range of
Boswell's writings and interests (in legal, social, theological,
political and linguistic fields). Drawing Boswell out of Johnson's
shadow, the volume places him in a wider context, juxtaposing
Boswell with other contemporaries and compatriots in the Scottish
enlightenment, such as Hume, Robertson and Blair. In addition it
investigates some of the critical and theoretical questions
surrounding the notion of biographical representation in the Life
itself. Boswell emerges as a writer engaged throughout his literary
career in constructing a self or series of selves out of his
divided Scottish identity. This collection combines archival
research with fresh critical perspectives and constitutes a timely
review of Boswell's status in eighteenth-century literary studies.
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. Among the
themes engaged are history, disability, gender, politics, race,
slavery, Johnson's representation in art, and the significance of
the Yale Edition. Works discussed include Johnson's poetry and
fiction, his moral essays and political tracts, his Shakespeare
edition and Dictionary, and his critical, biographical, and travel
writing. A narrated Further Reading provides an informative guide
to the study of Johnson, and a substantial Introduction highlights
how his literary practice, philosophical values, and life
experience provide a challenge to readers new and established.
Through fresh, integrated insights, this authoritative guide
reveals the surprising contemporaneity of Johnson's thought.
To mark the tercentenary of Samuel Johnson's birth in 2009, the
specially-commissioned essays contained here review his scholarly
reputation. An international team of experts reflects
authoritatively on the various dimensions of literary, historical,
critical and ethical life touched by Johnson's extraordinary
achievement. The volume distinctively casts its net widely and
combines consistently innovative thinking on Johnson's historical
role with a fresh sense of present criticism. Chapters cover
subjects as diverse as Johnson's moral philosophy, his legal
thought, his influence on Jane Austen, and the question of the
Johnson canon. The contributors examine the larger theoretical and
scholarly contexts in which it is now possible to situate his work,
and from which it may often be necessary to differentiate it. All
the contributors have a distinguished record of scholarship in
eighteenth-century studies, Johnson scholarship, and cultural
history and theory.
To mark the tercentenary of Samuel Johnson's birth in 2009, the
specially-commissioned essays contained here review his scholarly
reputation. An international team of experts reflects
authoritatively on the various dimensions of literary, historical,
critical and ethical life touched by Johnson's extraordinary
achievement. The volume distinctively casts its net widely and
combines consistently innovative thinking on Johnson's historical
role with a fresh sense of present criticism. Chapters cover
subjects as diverse as Johnson's moral philosophy, his legal
thought, his influence on Jane Austen, and the question of the
Johnson canon. The contributors examine the larger theoretical and
scholarly contexts in which it is now possible to situate his work,
and from which it may often be necessary to differentiate it. All
the contributors have a distinguished record of scholarship in
eighteenth-century studies, Johnson scholarship, and cultural
history and theory.
This is a radical introduction to the Life of Johnson. It discusses
the main structural, dramatic, historical and imaginative aspects
of the work, and establishes its intellectual contexts: Hume's
philosophy, earlier biographical writings by Boswell, and the
French and German Enlightenment and romantic traditions. Professor
Clingham offers an account of the Life based upon reassessment of
the nature of biography, of Boswell's style and thought, and of
Johnson's own works. As he examines the Life's complex
psychological, emotional and artistic facets, a fresh picture of
Boswell as biographer emerges. The book also provides a table of
the principal scenes and conversations in the Life, as well as a
chronological table of Boswell's life and times and a guide to
further reading.
Johnson, Writing, and Memory demonstrates the importance of memory
in Samuel Johnson's oeuvre. Greg Clingham argues that this is a
notion of memory that is derived from the process of historical and
creative writing, and is found to be embodied in works of
literature and other cultural forms. He examines Johnson's writing,
including his biographical writing, as it intersects with
eighteenth-century thought on literature, history, fiction and law
and in its subsequent compatibility with and resistance to modern
theory. Clingham's widely researched study provides an account of
Johnson's intellectual positions that incorporates the challenges
they pose to recent critical theory, and argues for Johnson's
inclusion in a new theorisation of terms such as 'authority',
'nature' and 'memory'. Clingham does this work of intellectual
abstraction while remaining focused in the concrete realities of
Johnson's writing itself, offering a theoretically nuanced and
original account of Johnson's work.
Boswell's Life of Johnson is established as one of the foremost
literary biographies in the English language. This 1991 collection
of essays, commemorating its bicentenary, investigates Boswell's
achievements and limitations in both literary and personal
contexts, and goes beyond the Life to examine the full range of
Boswell's writings and interests (in legal, social, theological,
political and linguistic fields). Drawing Boswell out of Johnson's
shadow, the volume places him in a wider context, juxtaposing
Boswell with other contemporaries and compatriots in the Scottish
enlightenment, such as Hume, Robertson and Blair. In addition it
investigates some of the critical and theoretical questions
surrounding the notion of biographical representation in the Life
itself. Boswell emerges as a writer engaged throughout his literary
career in constructing a self or series of selves out of his
divided Scottish identity. This collection combines archival
research with fresh critical perspectives and constitutes a timely
review of Boswell's status in eighteenth-century literary studies.
This Companion provides a unique introduction and guide to the works and life of one of the key figures in English literary history. The source of endless familiar aphorisms, the compiler of the first great dictionary in English, the greatest of essayists, and one of the most distinctive characters and conversationalists in our literary culture, Johnson is here surveyed in his entirety. Chapters on the major works, his life, conversation, letters and critical reception appear alongside fresh thematic essays, a chronology and a guide to further reading.
Oriental Networks explores forms of interconnectedness between
Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century,
a period of improving transportation technology, expansion of
intercultural contacts, and the emergence of a global economy. In
eight case studies and a substantial introduction, the volume
examines relationships between individuals and institutions,
precursors to modern networks that engaged in forms of
intercultural exchange. Addressing the exchange of cultural
commodities (plants, animals, and artifacts), cultural practices
and ideas, the roles of ambassadors and interlopers, and the
literary and artistic representation of networks, networkers, and
networking, contributors discuss the effects on people previously
separated by vast geographical and cultural distance. Rather than
idealizing networks as inherently superior to other forms of
organization, Oriental Networks also considers Enlightenment
expressions of resistance to networking that inform modern
skepticism toward the concept of the global network and its
politics. In doing so the volume contributes to the increasingly
global understanding of culture and communication. Published by
Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers
University Press.
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