Political Writings: The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson - Couverture rigide

Johnson, Samuel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300015933 ISBN 13 : 9780300015935

Editeur : Yale University Press, 1977

Synopsis

Public and private morality as focus in writings of Samuel Johnson

Given Samuel Johnson's lifelong concern with problems of human morality, it is not surprising--in an age when such writers as Defoe, Swift, Pope, Goldsmith, and Burke were highly politically conscious--to find Johnson frequently turning to matters of both public and private morality.

Donald J. Greene presents a collection of Johnson's writings with a political emphasis: his early anti-Walpolian pamphlets Marmor Norfolciense and A Complete Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage, and various journalistic squibs; an abridgment of the debate on the offer of the Crown to Oliver Cromwell; the articles on the Seven Years' War and related matters, such as the notorious trial and execution of Admiral Byng; and the four pamphlets of the 1770s--The False Alarm, Thoughts on . . . Falkland's Islands, The Patriot, and Taxation No Tyranny. An introduction addresses Johnson's politics, and full annotation provides historical context.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was a poet, essayist, biographer, and editor. Donald J. Greene is Leo S. Bing Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 1977
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300015933
• ISBN 13: 9780300015935
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 527
• Éditeur: Greene Donald J.
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