The Oxford handbook of Samuel Johnson / edited by Jack Lynch.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.
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Series
Oxford handbooks [More in this series]
Summary note
This handbook, devoted to the work of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), is organized into three sections that study Johnson's career, his major and lesser-known works, and the subjects that were most important to him as a writer, thinker, and moralist.
Notes
Also issued in print: 2022.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Target audience
Specialized.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 1, 2022).
Contents
  • Youth / Kevin J. Berland
  • Scholarship / Mark Pedreira
  • Fiction / Steven Scherwatzky
  • Criticism / Jack Lynch
  • Sermons / Howard D. Weinbrot
  • Polemic / Christopher Vilmar
  • Travel / Anthony W. Lee
  • Biography / Nicholas Seager
  • Authorship / Benjamin Pauley
  • Language / Lynda Mugglestone
  • History / Jenny Davidson
  • Prime / Michael Bundock
  • Law / Greg Clingham
  • Politics / Thomas Kaminski
  • War / Melinda Alliker Rabb
  • Commerce / Frans De Bruyn
  • Women / Isobel Grundy
  • Sociability / Jaclyn Geller
  • Humor / J. T. Scanlan
  • Education / Jessica Richard
  • Science / Joseph Drury
  • Philosophy / Brad Pasanek
  • Age / Peter Sabor
  • Suffering / Adam Rounce
  • Death / Eric Parisot
  • Doubt / Carrie Shanafelt
  • Hope / Adam Potkay
  • Emotion / Philip Smallwood
  • Happiness / Brian Michael Norton
  • Virtue / Nicholas Hudson
  • God / Blanford Parker
  • Introduction / Jack Lynch
  • Lives / Lisa Berglund
  • Editions / Robert DeMaria, Jr.
  • Journalism / Paul Tankard
  • Verse / David F. Venturo
  • Essays / Richard Squibbs.
Other title(s)
  • Handbook of Samuel Johnson
  • Samuel Johnson
ISBN
9780191836138 (ebook)
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