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This volume presents fifteen original essays that move from
structural and thematic subjects to matters of historical and
cultural significance. Contributors to Quick Springs of Sense cover
a remarkably wide variety of the literary interests and figures of
England from the Augustan Age until midcentury including the
periodical, Gulliver's Travels, Defoe, Fielding, the episodic novel
as a genre, Smollett, Sterne, and the poetry of Swift and Pope. Its
variety and liveliness aptly convey the vigor of the neoclassical
age itself where there were many quick springs of sense.
The first part of this fascinating account of a biographer's
problems tells of the adventures of one biographer in tracking down
clues in several parts of the world--accidental discovery, long
pursuit of a watward detail, and suggestions of new ways of turning
up evidence. The second part deals more generally with problems
faced by all biographers, the most difficult being the decision
concerning how much of the available material to use.
Originally published in 1970.
A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the
latest in digital technology to make available again books from our
distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These
editions are published unaltered from the original, and are
presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both
historical and cultural value.
Originally published by Cambridge in 1947, the manuscript upon
which this volume is based lay dormant between the time of its
creation and 1854, when it was discovered in an office of the
Supreme Court in New South Wales. Whilst it is a concise account,
written by the little-known Irish clergyman Thomas Campbell
(1733-1795), it is notable for its frank description of encounters
with Samuel Johnson. Campbell is unsparing in relating the crass
aspects of Johnson's behaviour, such as his temperamentality and
use of bad language, along with his manifold qualities. The text is
consummately edited by James L. Clifford, with extensive notes, and
contains a highly readable introduction by S. C. Roberts. It will
be of value to anyone with an interest in Samuel Johnson, and the
eighteenth-century literary milieu.
The papers in this collection were presented at a symposium
sponsored by the Conference on British Studies at the University of
Delaware. Six leading experts on different aspects of
eighteenth-century Britain wrote on a general theme which cuts
across traditional disciplinary boundaries. This theme is the lot
of the ordinary individual in eighteenth-century society. This
collection provides a wealth of information and valuable insights
for the scholar of eighteenth-century Britain.
Samuel Johnson was first published in 1970. Minnesota Archive
Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books
once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the
original University of Minnesota Press editions.For anyone
interested in the work of Samuel Johnson and his place in
eighteenth-century studies, this bibliography will be of great
value, for it includes virtually everything of importance that has
been written about Johnson from his own lifetime to the present. In
addition, Professors Clifford and Greene, in an introductory essay,
survey and evaluate the changing attitudes toward Johnson through
the entire period covered in the bibliography. This volume is a
revision and enlargement of Professor Clifford's earlier work
Johnsonian Studies, 1887-1950: A Survey and Bibliography, long
recognized as an indispensable tool for the study of Samuel
Johnson, his circle, and his times, and now out of print. The
present volume contains nearly four thousand bibliographical
entries, grouped under twenty-five subject headings, and arranged
chronologically within each classification. This arrangement
enables the student to trace the development of the scholarship of
the various aspects of Johnson's life and work. A detailed author
and subject index to the whole volume makes it easy for him to find
the description of the particular book or article for which he is
searching.
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