Designed to complement DeMaria's textbook British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology , this critical reader contains seventeen essays by sixteen contemporary literary critics and covers the full range of works printed in the anthology.
Designed to complement DeMaria's textbook British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology , this critical reader contains seventeen essays by sixte...
Although the Dictionary is primarily a philological work, DeMaria shows how it also serves literary, moral, and educational purposes. By analyzing the content of the 116,000 illustrative quotations used by Johnson, the author illuminates the major themes of the book: knowledge and ignorance, truth and probabiity, learning and education, language, religion, and morality. Johnson's choice of which quotations to include represents his vision of the intellectual landscape.
Although the Dictionary is primarily a philological work, DeMaria shows how it also serves literary, moral, and educational purposes. By analyz...
This anthology presents a selection of works that illustrates the traffic between British poetry and classical literature.
Gives readers the classical background they need in order to really appreciate British poetry.
Divided into two halves - the first half presenting a selection of the best British poems, and the second presenting relevant classical works in translation.
Notes and introductions highlight the connections between British works and their classical forebears.
This anthology presents a selection of works that illustrates the traffic between British poetry and classical literature.
This anthology presents a selection of works that illustrates the traffic between British poetry and classical literature.
Gives readers the classical background they need in order to really appreciate British poetry.
Divided into two halves - the first half presenting a selection of the best British poems, and the second presenting relevant classical works in translation.
Notes and introductions highlight the connections between British works and their classical forebears.
This anthology presents a selection of works that illustrates the traffic between British poetry and classical literature.
In this major revision of The Life of Samuel Johnson, Robert DeMaria makes a compelling claim for the attention of a new generation of Johnson's readers and admirers.
In this major revision of The Life of Samuel Johnson, Robert DeMaria makes a compelling claim for the attention of a new generation of Johnson's reade...
Designed to complement DeMaria's textbook British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology , this critical reader contains seventeen essays by sixteen contemporary literary critics and covers the full range of works printed in the anthology.
Designed to complement DeMaria's textbook British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology , this critical reader contains seventeen essays by sixte...