Samuel Johnson : a biography / Peter Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Peter, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.

Authors, English--18th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 608 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.

Contents:

Part 1 Staffordshire Youth

1 Anecdotes of Beggary 3

2 Stepping on the Duckling 19

3 Leaping over the Rail 33

4 Two Benefactors 50

Part 2 Despondency and Hope

5 Oxford: Wielding a Scholar's Weapon 71

6 Horrible Imaginings 94

7 Stirrings in Birmingham 105

8 Taking a Wife 118

Part 3 Slow Rises Worth

9 Stranger in London 139

10 Sons of Misery: Finding Richard Savage 150

11 'Slow Rises Worth by Poverty Depress'd' 171

12 Wandering in the Midlands 191

Part 4 Triumph: The Dictionary Years

13 London Revived: A Lion in Harness 201

14 A Lifeline: The Dictionary 220

15 Poetic Interludes 241

16 Tetty and 'Amorous Propensities' 253

17 The Triumph of the Moralist 264

18 Darkness Falls 276

19 Once More unto the Breach: Back to the Dictionary 285

Part 5 Depression, Shakespeare, Travel and Anger

20 Stalled 309

21 'Suffering Chimeras' 329

22 'Vain and Corrupt Imaginations' 346

23 Boswell and Mrs Thrale 359

24 Shakespeare and the Living World 374

25 Coliseum of Beasts 393

26 Back to Shakespeare and the Dictionary 406

27 The Road to the Hebrides 420

28 Politics and Travel 437

Part 6 Biography and 'The Race with Death'

29 'A Very Poor Creeper upon the Earth' 457

30 Biographical Straitjacket 473

31 Losing Ground 494

32 The Last Days 516.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [565]-572).

ISBN:

0674031601

9780674031609

OCLC:

213375909