Samuel Johnson : the arc of the pendulum / [edited by] Freya Johnston and Lynda Mugglestone.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnston, Freya.

Mugglestone, Lynda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784--Criticism and interpretation.

Johnson, Samuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text offers wide-ranging coverage of Samuel Johnson's life work, and reception across 15 thematically cohesive chapters. Taking as its point of departure William Hazlitt's famous comparison between Johnson's prose style and a pendulum, this volume will contest and rebalance the metaphor of the pendulum.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Note on Texts and Short Titles; List of Contributors; 1. Johnson's Pendulum: Introduction; 2. Johnson and Time; 3. Johnson and Change; 4. Johnson's Assertions and Concessions: Moral; 5. Johnson: Sanity and Syntax; 6. Johnson's Freud; 7. Fault Finding in Johnson's Lives of the Poets; 8. Johnson and Genius; 9. Johnson Personified; 10. The Creation of Character; 11. 'A Goose-Quill or a Gander's?': Female Writers in Johnson's Dictionary; 12. The Battle of the Word-Books: Competition, the 'Common Reader,' and Johnson's Dictionary

13. Fixity and Instability in the Text of Johnson's Poems14. What Is It About Johnson?; 15. Johnson and the Warton Brothers; 16. Johnson Rebalanced: The Happy Man, Th e Supportive Family, and his Social Religion; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Dec. 14, 2012).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-84838-4

0-19-163703-3

OCLC:

823283449