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Titre(s) : Reconsidering biography [Texte imprimé] : contexts, controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson / edited by Martine W. Brownley
Publication : Lewisburg (Pa.) : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham (Md.) : The Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Group, cop. 2012
Description matérielle : xxii-174 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations and Short Titles ; Introdcution: Why Hawkins? ;
Re-Assesing Sir John Hawkins's The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.: Some Reflections
; Sir John Hawkins and the Developement of English Biography ; A Rhetoric of Truth
and Instruction: Hawkins's The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D., and Eighteenth-Century
Biographical Practice ; Hawkins and Biography as a Genre ; Hawkin's The Life of
Samuel Johnson, L.L.D., and Modern Biographies ; Sir John Hawkins's Johnson and His
Contexts ; Sir John Hawkins on Richard Savage and the Profession of Authorship ;
From Bigotry to Genius: The Treatment of Johnson's Poltics in Hawkins's The Life of
Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. ; Hawkin's Biography, and the Law ; Bibliography ; Notes
on Contributors.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia
Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins's Life 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."--Publisher's
website
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Brownley, Martine Watson. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Hawkins, John (1719-1789). The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Biographie anglaise -- 18e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781611483833 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1611483832 (cloth) (alk. paper). -
ISBN 9781611483840 (electronic). - ISBN 1611483840 (electronic)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb425794052
Notice n° :
FRBNF42579405
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