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Book Synopsis The Reformist Ideas of Samuel Johnson by : Stefka Ritchie
Download or read book The Reformist Ideas of Samuel Johnson written by Stefka Ritchie and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores what remains an under-studied aspect of Samuel Johnson’s profile as a person and writer – namely, his attitude to social improvement. The interpretive framework provided here is cross-disciplinary, and applies perspectives from social and cultural history, legal history, architectural history and, of course, English literature. This allows Johnson’s writings to be read against the peculiarities of their historical milieu, and reveals Johnson in a new light – as an advocate of social improvement for human betterment. Considering the multiplicity of narrative modes that have been employed, the book points to the blurred boundaries and overlapping between history, testimony and fiction, and argues that a future biography of Samuel Johnson has to recognise that throughout his life he valued the utilitarian aspect of his manifesto as a writer to impart a more charitable attitude in the pursuit of a more caring society.
Book Synopsis Samuel Johnson’s Pragmatism and Imagination by : Stefka Ritchie
Download or read book Samuel Johnson’s Pragmatism and Imagination written by Stefka Ritchie and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central theme of this book is an under-studied link between the canon of Francis Bacon’s and Isaac Newton’s scientific and philosophical thought and Samuel Johnson’s critical approach that can be traced in a textual study of his literary works. The interpretive framework adopted here encourages familiarity with the history and philosophy of science, confirming that the history of ideas is an entirely human construct that constitutes an integral part of intellectual history. This further endorses the argument that intermediality can only be of benefit to future research into the richness of Johnson’s literary style. As perceived boundaries are crossed between conventionally distinct communication media, the profile of Johnson that emerges is of a writer of passionate intelligence who was able to combine a pragmatic approach to knowledge with flights of imagination as a true artist.
Book Synopsis Life and Times of William Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by : Eben Edwards Beardsley
Download or read book Life and Times of William Samuel Johnson, LL.D. written by Eben Edwards Beardsley and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of Samuel Johnson: Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of eminent persons by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book The Works of Samuel Johnson: Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of eminent persons written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of eminent persons by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of eminent persons written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Age of Curiosity by : Simone Broders
Download or read book The Age of Curiosity written by Simone Broders and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the ‘success story’ of curiosity from original sin to intellectual virtue, this study uses an innovative methodological approach to the history of ideas as a non-teleological neural network based on current research in information technology and neurophysiology. The network offers a dynamic alternative to the ‘development’ of curiosity within the progress-oriented mythology of the Enlightenment, emphasizing the oscillation and interaction of ideas within the processes of their construction, as well as exposing the power relations behind them. The text corpus focuses on enactments of curiosity in English literature of the 'Long' Eighteenth Century (c. 1680-1818), such as transgression of boundaries, breach of taboo, gendered curiosity, sensationalism, or academic endeavour, bringing together a variety of examples from all major genres. The Age of Curiosity contributes to current debates on a post-Foucauldian renewal of Lovejoy’s history of ideas in Enlightenment studies, exploring both curiosity as an indispensable trait for the search of answers to the fundamental yet unresolved questions of ‘identity’ or ‘truth’, and its potential as cura, the care for others and the world.
Book Synopsis Religion, Reform and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century by : Robert G. Ingram
Download or read book Religion, Reform and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century written by Robert G. Ingram and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new interpretation of English history and religion in the eighteenth century. The eighteenth century has long divided critical opinion. Some contend that it witnessed the birth of the modern world, while others counter that England remained an ancien regime confessional state. This book takes issue with both positions, arguing that the former overstate the newness of the age and largely misdiagnose the causes of change, while the latter rightly point to the persistence of more traditional modes of thought and behaviour, but downplay the era's fundamental uncertainty and misplace the reasons for and the timeline of its passage. The overwhelming catalyst for change is here seen to be war, rather than long-term social and economic changes. Archbishop Thomas Secker [1693-1768], the Cranmer or Laud of his age, and the hitherto neglected church reforms he spearheaded, form the particular focus of the book; this is the first full archivally-based study of a crucial but frequently ignored figure. ROBERT G. INGRAM is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Ohio University.
Download or read book The Age of Johnson written by Jack Lynch and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 24 features commentary on a range of Johnsonian topics: his reaction to Milton, his relation to the Allen family, his notes in his edition of Shakespeare, his use of Oliver Goldsmith in his Dictionary, and his always fascinating Nachleben. The volume also includes articles on topics of strong interest to Johnson: penal reform, Charlotte Lennox's professional literary career, and the "conjectural history" of Homer in the eighteenth century.
Book Synopsis Prayers and meditations, publ. by G. Strahan by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book Prayers and meditations, publ. by G. Strahan written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Politics of Samuel Johnson by : Donald Johnson Greene
Download or read book The Politics of Samuel Johnson written by Donald Johnson Greene and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Vanity of Human Wishes by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book The Vanity of Human Wishes written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1749 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by : James Boswell
Download or read book The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dinner with Joseph Johnson by : Daisy Hay
Download or read book Dinner with Joseph Johnson written by Daisy Hay and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller—from William Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft to Benjamin Franklin Once a week, in late eighteenth-century London, writers of contrasting politics and personalities gathered around a dining table. The veal and boiled vegetables may have been unappetising but the company was convivial and the conversation brilliant and unpredictable. The host was Joseph Johnson, publisher and bookseller: a man at the heart of literary life. In this book, Daisy Hay paints a remarkable portrait of a revolutionary age through the connected stories of the men and women who wrote it into being, and whose ideas still influence us today. Johnson’s years as a publisher, 1760 to 1809, witnessed profound political, social, cultural and religious changes—from the American and French revolutions to birth of the Romantic age—and many of his dinner guests and authors were at the center of events. The shifting constellation of extraordinary people at Johnson’s table included William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Benjamin Franklin, the scientist Joseph Priestly and the Swiss artist Henry Fuseli, as well as a group of extraordinary women—Mary Wollstonecraft, the novelist Maria Edgeworth, and the poet Anna Barbauld. These figures pioneered revolutions in science and medicine, proclaimed the rights of women and children and charted the evolution of Britain’s relationship with America and Europe. As external forces conspired to silence their voices, Johnson made them heard by continuing to publish them, just as his table gave them refuge. A rich work of biography and cultural history, Dinner with Joseph Johnson is an entertaining and enlightening story of a group of people who left an indelible mark on the modern age.
Book Synopsis Between Secularization and Reform by : Anna Tomaszewska
Download or read book Between Secularization and Reform written by Anna Tomaszewska and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors revisit the idea that Enlightenment spearheaded secularization. This book invites all to look at the Enlightenment religiosity as founded on a merger of religious criticism and heterodoxy.
Book Synopsis Lives of the English Poets by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book Lives of the English Poets written by Samuel Johnson and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.
Book Synopsis Political Writings by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book Political Writings written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Samuel Johnson by : George Angier Gordon
Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by George Angier Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
