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Subject(s)

• Johnson, Samuel 1709-1784 [Browse]
• Johnson, Samuel 1709-1784—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]

Editor

• Lynch, Jack (John T.) [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks [More in this series]

Summary note

A Handbook devoted to the work of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), organized in 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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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ISBN

• 9780198794660 (hardcover)
• 0198794665 (hardcover)

OCLC

1330689193

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