Ebook: Samuel Johnson: the struggle
Author: Johnson Samuel, Meyers Jeffrey
- Tags: Authors English--18th century, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary, Intellectuals--Great Britain, Lexicographers--Great Britain, LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English Irish Scottish Welsh, Authors English, Intellectual life, Intellectuals, Lexicographers, Electronic books, Biographies, Biography, Johnson Samuel -- 1709-1784, Authors English -- 18th century -- Biography, Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography, Intellectuals -- Great Britain -- Biography, Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th c
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Basic Books
- City: New York;Great Britain
- Language: English
- epub
Just in time for the 300th anniversary of his birth, an authoritative new biography of the man who created the English language.;List of Illustrations xi; Acknowledgments xiii; INTRODUCTION: The Struggle 1; 1. Lichfield Lad, 1709-1728 9; 2. Vile Melancholy, 1728-1730 31; 3. Preposterous Union, 1730-1736 52; 4. Benevolent Giant, 1737 73; 5. Grub Street, 1737 90; 6. London Observed, 1737-1739 109; 7. Politics and Passion, 1739-1744 131; 8. Doom of Man, 1745-1749 157; 9. Greatest Genius, 1750-1752 183; 10. Intellectual Entertainments, 1752-1754 212; 11. Sluggish Resolution, 1755-1758 242; 12. Dangerous Imagination, 1759-1762 262; 13. Society of the Afflicted, 1762-1763 279; 14. Contagion of Desire, 1763-1764 293.
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