Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum

Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum
ISBN-10
0199654344
ISBN-13
9780199654345
Series
Samuel Johnson
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
241
Language
English
Published
2012-11-15
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Authors
Lynda Mugglestone, Freya Johnston

Description

This text offers wide-ranging coverage of Samuel Johnson's life work, and reception across 15 thematically cohesive chapters. Taking as its point of departure William Hazlitt's famous comparison between Johnson's prose style and a pendulum, this volume will contest and rebalance the metaphor of the pendulum.

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