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Johnson, Writing, and Memory

By: Greg Clingham

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Johnson, Writing, and Memory

By: Greg Clingham

Examines Johnson's writing in relation to eighteenth-century thought on literature, history, fiction and law.

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0521816114

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Johnson, Writing, and Memory

By: Greg Clingham

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Examines Johnson's writing in relation to eighteenth-century thought on literature, history, fiction and law.

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Verses Against the Darkness

Pablo Neruda's Poetry and Politics

By: Greg Dawes

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Verses Against the Darkness

Pablo Neruda's Poetry and Politics

By: Greg Dawes

Verses Against the Darkness: offers a new assessment of Pablo Neruda's poetry by looking at the intersection of his aesthetic method and political radicalism from 1925 to 1954. It challenges the canonical view that Neruda was a gifted verse maker who, in 1936, let himself be carried away by the excesses of communist politics. Instead, by focusing primarily on Tercera residencia (1935-1945), Greg Dawes argues for an uneven yet steady evolution and continuity in Neruda's work, politics, and morality. Dawes relies on historical accounts, biographies, literary history, and criticism - and on Neruda's political and aesthetic theory - to prove that his poetry became, contrary to received critical opinion, more sophisticated literarily and politically as he became more radicalized during the Spanish Civil War and World War II and as he developed his dialectical realism or guided spontaneity. Greg Dawes is Associate Professor of Latin American and World Literatures at North Carolina State University and is the editor of the on-line journal A contracorriente.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838756433

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9780838756430

Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment

The Genius of Every Place

By: Kevin L. Cope

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Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment

The Genius of Every Place

By: Kevin L. Cope

Seeking to honor and extend the critical legacy of Howard Weinbrot, this volume re-examines, rebuilds, and upgrades the most prominent pillars of long eighteenth-century scholarship. The collection is divided into four thematic sections, beginning with a series of chapters offering fresh analyses of Swift, Dryden, Hogarth, and other major authors and artists of the period. In the sections that follow, the contributors not only explore biographies of both highly esteemed figures and notorious deviants, but also investigate the very concept of Enlightenment as it has evolved from the eighteenth century to today. The final section features chapters that probe the complex interaction of identity, persona, and place, traversing the countless locales in which the British—and the international—eighteenth century emerged. The volume ultimately covers a range of experience that extends from the gallows to the landscape garden and from heroic antiquity to Romantic-era France. Juxtaposing the local and particular against the grand and universal, Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment testifies to the complexity and ongoing significance of eighteenth-century culture.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1611463300

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9781611463309

Reconsidering Biography

Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson

By: Martine Watson Brownley

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Reconsidering Biography

Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson

By: Martine Watson Brownley

As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787). From its inception, Hawkins’s work, arising from a close relationship with Johnson that spanned over forty-five years, challenged certain adulatory views of Johnson and has continued to raise interesting critical questions about both Johnsonian biography and the genre of biography generally. Reconsidering Biography collects new essays that explore Hawkins’s biography of Johnson within its historical, political, legal, and personal contexts. More particularly, this volume considers how Hawkins’s approach to recording the Life of Johnson opens up broader questions about early modern biography and its relationship with eighteenth-century trends in aesthetics, politics, and historiography. These sophisticated and informed essays on a curious and often vexed friendship, and its literary offspring, supply a colorful and expansive view of the role of life-writing in the eighteenth-century literary imagination.

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Lexington Books

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1611483840

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James Boswell: The Life of Johnson

By: Greg Clingham

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James Boswell: The Life of Johnson

By: Greg Clingham

This is a radical introduction to the Life of Johnson. It discusses the main structural, dramatic, historical and imaginative aspects of the work, and establishes its intellectual contexts: Hume's philosophy, earlier biographical writings by Boswell, and the French and German Enlightenment and romantic traditions. Professor Clingham offers an account of the Life based upon reassessment of the nature of biography, of Boswell's style and thought, and of Johnson's own works. As he examines the Life's complex psychological, emotional and artistic facets, a fresh picture of Boswell as biographer emerges. The book also provides a table of the principal scenes and conversations in the Life, as well as a chronological table of Boswell's life and times and a guide to further reading.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521378931

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9780521378932

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Johnson, Writing, and Memory

Johnson, Writing, and Memory

Johnson, Writing, and Memory

Johnson, Writing, and Memory

Verses Against the Darkness

Verses Against the Darkness

Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment

Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment

Reconsidering Biography

Reconsidering Biography

James Boswell: The Life of Johnson

James Boswell: The Life of Johnson

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