Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkin's Life of Johnson - Rilegato

Brownley, Martine W.

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ISBN 10: 1611483832 ISBN 13: 9781611483833

Casa editrice: Bucknell Univ Pr, 2012

Riassunto

As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’sLife 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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L'autore:

Martine W. Brownley is Goodrich C. White Professor of English at Emory University where she also serves as the director of the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bucknell Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1611483832
• ISBN 13: 9781611483833
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 174