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Overview
Catherine N. Parke offers new readings of Johnson's major prose writings, the familiar and the not so familiar. Through an inquiry into the centrality of biography in his thinking, she examines Johnson's ideas about education, portrays his habits of mind, and explores his creative temperment.
Synopsis
Catherine N. Parke offers new readings of Johnson's major prose writings, the familiar and the not so familiar. Through an inquiry into the centrality of biography in his thinking, she examines Johnson's ideas about education, portrays his habits of mind, and explores his creative temperment.
Booknews
Traces chronologically the centrality of biography for Johnson, examining his ideas about education, his habits of mind, and his creative temperament, and shedding light on connections between his biographical stance and his thinking on major moral and epistemological problems. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Editorials
From the Publisher
"Through an inquiry into the centrality of biography in Samuel Johnson's thinking, Catherine Parke examines Johnson's ideas about education, portrays his habits of mind, and explores his creative temperament. Johnsonians will find this book a sensitive reading of Johnson and a congenial conversation concerning an important conception of history."--Eighteenth-Century Fiction