English Fiction & Prose Literature - 18th Century - Literary Criticism

Johnson and His Age

Name: Johnson and His Age
Author: James Engell
ISBN: 9780674480766

by James Engell

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Overview

The variety of contributions in this volume testifies to the direct engagement of literature in both the social and the individual life that we find in Johnson and his contemporaries. Together these essays bring into focus intellectual, emotional, and moral issues.

About the Author, James Engell

James Engell, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard, is the author of The Creative Imagination, editor and contributor to Johnson and His Age, and coeditor (with David Perkins) of Teaching Literature: What is Needed Now, all published by Harvard University Press. He is also coeditor of the Bollingen edition of the Biographia Literaria for the Collected Works of Coleridge.