Samuel Johnson: An Analysis

Inbunden, Engelska, 1988

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Beskrivning

In this provocative and incisive book the author re-examines Samuel Johnson's major texts, focusing on his famous review of Soame Jenyns's A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil as a principal source of insight and innovation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1988-04-25
Mått:140 x 216 x 13 mm
Vikt:354 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:148
Upplaga:1988
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9780333443392

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Innehållsförteckning

Preface - List of Abbreviations - Johnson and Newton: Dismantling the Plenum - Vacuity, Time and Happiness in Johnson's Moral Psychology - Desire, Emulation and the Dialectic of Domination and Servitude in Irene - The Decline of the Heroic: from London to The Vanity of Human Wishes - 'The Maze of Variation': Johnson's Philosophy of Language in the Plan and Preface to The Dictionary - The Choice of Life: Art and Nature in Rasselas - The Anthropology of Natural Scarcity in A Journey to the Western Islands - Conclusion - Index