Contributor
Lee, Anthony W. editor.
ImprintNewark : University of Delaware Press, [2018]
Descriptionxx, 261 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Note:pt. I RE-READING SPECIFIC TEXTS -- 1. The Values of Annotation: Reading Johnson Reading Shakespeare / Lynda Mugglestone -- 2. No Poem an Island: Utopian Intertextuality in London, A Poem / Anthony W. Lee -- 3. "Pleasure or Weariness": Additions to and Exclusions from the Lives of the Poets / Adam Rounce -- 4. Dr. Johnson at Prayer: Consolation Philosophy in The Prayers and Meditations / Katherine Kickel -- 5. Samuel Johnson and Taxation No Tyranny: "I am willing to love all mankind, except an American." / Thomas M. Curley -- pt. III RE-MAPPING LARGER THEMES AND ISSUES -- 6. Sustainability Johnson / John Sitter -- 7. Samuel Johnson as Heterodox Critic and Poet / John Richetti -- 8. Playing Rough: Johnson and Children / Greg Clingham -- 9. Samuel Johnson and Autobiography: Reflection, Ambivalence, and "Split Intentionality" / Steven Scherwatzky -- 10. Considering Johnson's "Nose of the Mind" and Mind's Nose: Olfaction Deployed and Suppressed in the "Age of Johnson" / Emily C. Friedman -- 11. "Try to Resolve Again": Johnson and the Written Art of Everyday Life / Paul Tankard.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-249) and index.
Note:New Essays on Samuel Johnson is a collection of the best thinking and writing currently available on the great English writer Samuel Johnson. It presents a primer of criticism that revaluates him within our current cultural moment while also serving as a parliament of explorations that offers a point of departure for future critical inquiry.
