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No major author worked in more genres than Samuel Johnson--essays, poetry, fiction, criticism, biography, scholarly editing, lexicography, translation, sermons, journalism. His works are more extensive than those of any other canonical English writer, and no earlier writer's life was documented as thoroughly by contemporaries.Because it's so difficult to know him thoroughly, people have made do with surrogates and simplifications. But Johnson was much more complicated than the popular image of 'Dr. Johnson' suggests: socially conservative but also one of the most radical abolitionists of his age, a firm believer in social hierarchy but an outspoken supporter of women intellectuals, an uncompromising Christian moralist but also a penetrating critic of family structures. Labels fit him poorly.In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, an international team of thirty-six scholars offers the most comprehensive examination ever attempted of one of the most complex figures in English literature. The book's first section examines Johnson's life and the texts of his works; the second, organized by genre, explores all his major works and many of his minor ones; the third, organized by topic, covers the subjects that were most important to him as a writer, as a thinker, and as a moralist.

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Author:   Jack Lynch (Professor of English, Rutgers University-Newark)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.50cm , Height: 4.20cm , Length: 25.20cm
Weight:   1.372kg
ISBN:  

9780198794660

ISBN 10:   0198794665
Pages:   704
Publication Date:   22 September 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction PART I: CAREER 1: Kevin J. Berland: Youth 2: Michael Bundock: Prime 3: Peter Sabor: Age 4: Lisa Berglund: Lives 5: Robert DeMaria, Jr.: Editions PART II: GENRES 6: Paul Tankard: Journalism 7: David Venturo: Verse 8: Richard Squibbs: Essays 9: Mark Pedreira: Scholarship 10: Steven Scherwatzky: Fiction 11: Jack Lynch: Criticism 12: Howard D. Weinbrot: Sermons 13: Christopher Vilmar: Polemic 14: Anthony W. Lee: Travel 15: Nicholas Seager: Biography PART III: TOPICS 16: Benjamin Pauley: Authorship 17: Lynda Mugglestone: Language 18: Jenny Davidson: History 19: Greg Clingham: Law 20: Thomas Kaminski: Politics 21: Melinda Rabb: War 22: Frans De Bruyn: Commerce 23: Isobel Grundy: Women 24: Jaclyn Geller: Sociability 25: J. T. Scanlan: Humor 26: Jessica Richard: Education 27: Joseph Drury: Science 28: Brad Pasanek: Philosophy 29: Adam Rounce: Suffering 30: Eric Parisot: Death 31: Carrie Shanafelt: Doubt 32: Adam Potkay: Hope 33: Philip Smallwood: Emotion 34: Brian Michael Norton: Happiness 35: Nicholas Hudson: Virtue 36: Blanford Parker: God

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Jack Lynch received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and is Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. He is the author or editor of twenty books to date, including The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson (Cambridge, 2003), Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Ashgate, 2008), Samuel Johnson in Context (Cambridge, 2012), and The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800 (OUP, 2016). With J. T. Scanlan, he edits The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual.

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