The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson: Forms of Artistry and Thought

ISBN-13: 9781009369985 / Angielski

Philip Smallwood

Opis

Philip Smallwood celebrates the emotional power and enduring wisdom of Samuel Johnson's literary criticism, showing how the abyss of the heart informs its powerful life. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Recenzje

'An enquiring defence of Johnson as critic, and of literary criticism as a creative living medium, Philip Smallwood's new book is absorbing, richly informed and beautifully exemplified.' Freya Johnston, Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford

Spis treści

Introduction: The criteria of the heart; Part I. Johnson's Criticism and the Forms of Feeling: 1. Johnson's compassion; 2. 'The tears stand in my eyes': Johnson and emotion; Part II. Critical Relations and the Art of Literary History: 3. Petty caviller or 'formidable assailant': Johnson reads Dennis; 4. Readers curious and common: Johnson, Thomas Warton and historical form; Part III. Johnson, Dramatic Poetry and Thinking: 5. Shakespeare, Johnson and philosophy; 6. Two ways of being wise: Johnson, philosophy and Montaigne; Part IV. Time, Truth and History: 7. Johnson and time; 8. Truth, fiction and 'undisputed history'; Part V. Editing Lives and Life: 9. Annotated immortality; 10. Arts of structure and the rhythm of the lives.